Polarization (disambiguation)

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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

See also

• Polarity (disambiguation)
• Polarizer, a device which polarizes light
• Depolarization and hyperpolarization of neuronal membrane potentials (in neuroscience).
• Category:Polarization, for articles about polarization of light and other electromagnetic waves
• Polarization in astronomy

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