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polarize
verb
To cause to have a polarization.
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Polarizing filters polarize light and can absorb polarized light if suitably oriented.
The first scatter would polarize the electrons and the second scatter would analyze the produced polarization, giving rise to an asymmetry.
"If, in challenging, we polarize the American people, I say it is time for a positive polarization," he said.
Yet no president in the past 40 years has done more to polarize America so much, so quickly.In Mr Rove's defense, Mr Obama was only slightly more obsessed with the rhetoric of bipartisanship as... well, every other presidential candidate (like the former president, George "in Texas I brought people together" Bush).
Asking a population that's increasingly brown and beige to accept punishing tax rates while white seniors receive roughly $3 in Medicare benefits for every dollar they paid in (the projected ratio in the 2030s) promises to polarize the country along racial as well as generational lines.
His insistence upon the establishment of the European Defense Community EDCC) threatened to polarize the free world, when in 1953 he announced that failure to ratify EDC by France would result in an "agonizing reappraisal" of the United States' relations with France.
Apart from any specific chemical interaction, the very small size of the proton (about 10−15 metre) means that it exerts an extremely powerful electric field, which will polarize and therefore attract any molecule or ion it comes into contact with.
In this method, known as Natural Vision, two films are recorded with lenses that polarize light at different angles.
Factionalism within the ascendant Democratic Party and popular crusades such as prohibition (a movement to restrict the production and consumption of alcoholic beverages) and women's rights captured public attention and worked to polarize Tennessean society in the early 20th century.
This Eisenhower Doctrine appeared to polarize the region, with Middle East Treaty Organization members in support and Egypt, Syria, and Yemen in opposition.
As a centre party, however, the MRP lost votes to both the right and the left as political opinions began to polarize during the Cold War; in the 1951 elections it won only 12.6 percent of the votes cast and never regained its former popularity.
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