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Definition of Depolarise

1. Verb. Eliminate the polarization of.

Medical Definition of Depolarise

1. 1. To deprive of polarity; to reduce to an unpolarised condition. This word has been inaccurately applied in optics to describe the effect of a polarising medium, as a crystalline plate, in causing the reappearance of a ray, in consequence of a change in its plane of polarisation, which previously to the change was intercepted by the analyser. 2. To free from polarisation, as the negative plate of the voltaic battery. Origin: F. Depolariser. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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