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Definition of Polarized
1. Adjective. (American English) Describing something that possesses a distinctive polarization. ¹
2. Adjective. (American English) Describing a group or situation characterized by being at two (or more) extremes. ¹
3. Adjective. (alternative spelling of polarised) ¹
4. Verb. (past of polarize) ¹
5. Verb. (alternative spelling of polarised) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Polarized
1. polarize [v] - See also: polarize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polarized
Literary usage of Polarized
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Physical Optics by Robert Williams Wood (1905)
"This difference of absorbing power for oppositely circularly-polarized vibrations
leads us to a somewhat startling conclusion, which was foreseen by Cotton ..."
2. Physical Optics by Robert Williams Wood (1914)
"If the rhomb is placed in a vertical position, and the incident light polarized
in a plane turned clockwise 45° from the vertical, the direction of ..."
3. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell (1892)
"After passing through the medium the ray is still plane-polarized, ... Hence, of
the two circularly-polarized rays, that which is right- handed must have ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1860)
"On the Affections of Polarized Light reflected and transmitted by thin Plates.
... When light incident upon a thin plate is polarized cither in the plan? of ..."
5. A Treatise on Optics by David Brewster (1837)
"the reflecting and refracting forces, the planes of both these beams till they
coincide, and thus form light polarized in one plane. ..."
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