Polarization (disambiguation)
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Polarization or polarisation can mean:
- Polarization, a property of light and other electromagnetic waves
- Polarization (electrostatics), the vector field that results from permanent or induced electric dipole moments in a dielectric material
- Polarization of an Abelian variety, in the mathematics of complex manifolds
- Polarization identity in mathematics is a property of inner product spaces.
- Polarization (politics), the process by which the public opinion divides and goes to the extremes
- Polarization (psychology), the process whereby a social or political group is divided into opposing sub-groups
- Racial polarization, the process whereby a population with varyingly diverse ancestry is divided into distinct, homogenous racial groups
[edit] See also
- Polarity (disambiguation)
- Polarizer, a device which polarizes light
- Category:Polarization, for articles about polarization of light and other electromagnetic waves
- Polarization in astronomy