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Polarize

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

v. To induce polarization in; impart polarity to.

v. To cause to concentrate about two conflicting or contrasting positions.

verb-intransitive. To acquire polarity.

verb-intransitive. To cause polarization of light.

v. To cause to have a polarization.

v. To cause a group to be divided into extremes.

v. To communicate polarity to.

To develop polarization in, as in a ray of light which is acted upon by certain media and surfaces; give polarity to. See polarization.

In electricity, to coat with a film of gas, as the negative plate in a voltaic cell. Also spelled polarise.

In electricity, to fall off in electromotive force, as a voltaic cell, by the liberation of hydrogen at the positive terminal.

v. become polarized in a conflict or contrasting situation

v. cause to vibrate in a definite pattern

v. cause to concentrate about two conflicting or contrasting positions

"Yesterday Judge Wilkinson weighed in with a plea to the president not to "polarize" the Fourth Circuit."

polarized polarizes polarizing

Words that are more generic or abstract

separate divide part change modify

polarizing colorimeter polarizing angle polarizing microscope

polarized polarizing spectropolarimeter

Words that are found in similar contexts

atomic/magnetic unpolarized containingan cow-bell photoemission