polarization

English

Alternative forms

• polarisation

Etymology

Borrowed from French polarisation. By surface analysis, polarize +‎ -ation or polar +‎ -ization.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpoʊlərɪˈzeɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

polarization (countable and uncountable, plural polarizations)

1. the production or the condition of polarity
   1. (sociology) the grouping of opinions into two extremes
      • 2019 October 1, Thomas Carothers, Andrew O’Donohue, “How to Understand the Global Spread of Political Polarization”, in Carnegie Endowment for International Peace‎^[1], archived from the original on 2023-02-14:

        Polarization is tearing at the seams of democracies around the world, from Brazil and India to Poland and Turkey.

   2. (physics) the production of polarized light; the direction in which the electric field of an electromagnetic wave points
   4. (chemistry, physics) the separation of positive and negative charges in a nucleus, atom, molecule or system

Derived terms

• affective partisan polarization
• bipolarization
• depolarization
• eigenpolarization
• hyperpolarization
• hypopolarization
• interstellar polarization
• multipolarization
• polarization time
• polarization vector
• prepolarization
• repolarization
• spin polarization

 

Translations

production or condition of polarity

• Azerbaijani: qütbləşmə
• Catalan: polarització (ca) f
• French: polarisation (fr) f
• Galician: polarización (gl) f
• German: Polarisierung (de) f
• Greek: πόλωση (el) f (pólosi)
• Hindi: ध्रुवीकरण m (dhruvīkaraṇ)
• Hungarian: polarizáció (hu)
• Italian: polarizzazione (it) f
• Portuguese: polarização (pt) f
• Russian: поляриза́ция (ru) f (poljarizácija)
• Spanish: polarización (es) f
• Swedish: polarisering (sv) c
• Tagalog: sataluktok

grouping of opinions into two extremes

• Azerbaijani: qütbləşmə
• Catalan: polarització (ca) f
• French: polarisation (fr) f
• Galician: polarización (gl) f
• German: Polarisierung (de) f
• Greek: πόλωση (el) f (pólosi)
• Hindi: ध्रुवीकरण m (dhruvīkaraṇ)
• Italian: polarizzazione (it) f
• Malayalam: ധ്രുവീകരണം (dhruvīkaraṇaṁ)
• Polish: polaryzacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: polarização (pt) f
• Spanish: polarización (es) f
• Swedish: polarisering (sv) c

production of polarized light

• Catalan: polarització (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 偏振 (zh) (piānzhèn)

• Czech: polarizace f
• French: polarisation (fr) f
• Galician: polarización (gl) f
• German: Polarisierung (de) f
• Greek: πόλωση (el) f (pólosi)
• Hindi: ध्रुवीकरण m (dhruvīkaraṇ)
• Italian: polarizzazione (it) f
• Polish: polaryzacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: polarização (pt) f
• Spanish: polarización (es) f
• Swedish: polarisering (sv) c
• Tagalog: sataluktok

separation of positive and negative charges

• Catalan: polarització (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 極化／极化 (zh) (jíhuà)

• French: polarisation (fr)
• Galician: polarización (gl) f
• German: Polarisierung (de) f
• Greek: πόλωση (el) f (pólosi)
• Hindi: ध्रुवीकरण m (dhruvīkaraṇ)
• Italian: polarizzazione (it) f
• Portuguese: polarização (pt) f
• Spanish: polarización (es) f
• Swedish: polarisering (sv) c