polarization

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The production or the condition of polarity.

   “The subtopologies that we discovered include: a glide-symmetric analog of the quantum spin Hall effect, an hourglass-flow topology (exemplified by our recently-proposed KHgSb material class), and quantized non-Abelian polarizations.”

2. (countable, uncountable)The production or the condition of polarity.

   “What frazzled pollsters, surly op-ed pages, snarling cable talkfests and issue-starved candidates for office need is a fresh source of hot-eyed national polarization.”

   “The polarization of wealth and the polarization of attitudes to diversity are not unrelated. A key reason for popular hostility to immigrants is that to many people, particularly within working-class communities, immigration has become a symbol of unacceptable change.”

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

3. (countable, uncountable)The production or the condition of polarity.

   “We don’t usually notice polarization because direct sunlight and light from ordinary incandescent and fluorescent bulbs is unpolarized: it contains equal mixtures of horizontally and vertically polarized light.”

4. (countable, uncountable)The production or the condition of polarity.