MEANING
1. To give light or another suitable transverse wave an organized orientation pattern in its oscillations.
2. To cause people or views to form sharply opposed camps.
3. To produce a separation or alignment of electrical charge within a material.
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Words that belong together
- polarize light
- a polarized beam
On the page
The filter polarized the incoming light before it reached the display.
The instrument analyzed the polarized beam returning from the surface.
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Word forms
- Base
- polarize
- Past tense
- polarized
- Past participle
- polarized
- Present participle
- polarizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- polarize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are polarizing
- Present perfect
- have/has polarized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been polarizing
- Past
- polarized
- Past continuous
- was/were polarizing
- Past perfect
- had polarized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been polarizing
- Future
- will polarize
- Future continuous
- will be polarizing
- Future perfect
- will have polarized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been polarizing
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Usage notes
Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: polarize; polarizes; polarized; polarized; polarizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: polarizes.
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