Polarization (disambiguation)

Polarization or polarisation of transverse waves describes the orientation of oscillations in the plane perpendicular to the wave's direction of travel.

Polarization or polarisation can also refer to:

In the physical sciences:
 * Polarization density, the vector field that results from permanent or induced electric dipole moments in a material
 * Spin polarization, the degree by which the spin of elementary particles is aligned to a given direction

In mathematics:
 * Polarization of an Abelian variety, in the mathematics of complex manifolds
 * Polarization of an algebraic form, a technique for expressing a homogeneous polynomial in a simpler fashion by adjoining more variables

In the social sciences:
 * 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