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polarized

[ poh-luh-rahyzd ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

of or relating to a medium that exhibits polarization.
(of an electric plug or outlet) designed so that the plug and outlet fit together in only one way.

First recorded in 1920–25; polarize + -ed ²

This is not because of bad leaders, or polarized politics, but because of a governing structure that is fatally flawed.

Well, the two parties in Congress are more ideologically and geographically polarized than at any time in our recent history.

And just as everyone seems to be becoming more sensitive, so are they becoming more polarized.

Because they get a little happily ever after that seems to have polarized fans, too.

We are now more polarized and more divided along racial lines than the day you took office.

Not even the Gerns had ever been able to devise a polarized detector screen.

In that circuit, at the other end, there is a precisely similar little insulated coil, upon a precisely similar polarized magnet.

This is held only around its edge, and its center is free to vibrate toward and from the end of this polarized magnet.

Across the opposite end of this polarized magnet, crosswise to it, and very close, there is placed a diaphragm of thin sheet iron.

Zonal structure is characteristic, being noticeable even without the use of polarized light.

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