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• polarisation

語源

Borrowed from French polarisation. By surface analysis, polarize +‎ -ation or polar +‎ -ization.

発音

• IPA: /ˌpoʊlərɪˈzeɪʃən/
• 韻: -eɪʃən

名詞

polarization (countable and uncountable, plural polarizations)

1. The production or the condition of polarity.
   • 2016, A. Alexandradinata, Zhijun Wang, B. Andrei Bernevig, “Topological Insulators from Group Cohomology”, in arXiv‎:

     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.

   1. (sociology) The grouping of opinions into two extremes.
      • 2004 June 2, William Safire, “Abolish the Penny”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 19 August 2020:

        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.

      • 2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, “London Is Special, but Not That Special”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 10 October 2021, retrieved 28 September 2013:

        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.

      • 2019 October 1, Thomas Carothers, Andrew O’Donohue, “How to Understand the Global Spread of Political Polarization”, in Carnegie Endowment for International Peace‎, archived from the original on 14 February 2023:

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

   2. (physics) The production of polarized light; the direction in which the electric field of an electromagnetic wave points.
      • 2013 July 16, skullsinthestars, “Simple fun with polarizers!”, in Skulls in the Stars‎, archived from the original on 5 April 2022:

        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.

   3. (chemistry, physics) The separation of positive and negative charges in a nucleus, atom, molecule or system.

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