Meanings
plural polarisations · alternative polarization
- UKcountablenonstandarduncountableNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of polarization.
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One wonders whether such an event, a conscious, improbable-but-made-probable event, took place at the time of creation, the act itself being nothing but a polarisation (or separation quality-wise) of the attributeless Nirguna, a separation of zero plus x and minus x. This is indeed the genesis of the Big Bang theory of science.
1979, Bhavan’s Journal, XXV, issues 13-26, 269/1
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe phenomenon in which waves of light or other radiation are restricted in direction of vibration
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Frenchpolarisation
- Englishpolarisation
Borrowed from French polarisation. By surface analysis, polarise + -ation or polar + -isation.
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