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  • Polarised lenses and shutter lenses block out the opposite image for the eye up to 144 times per second (in Real-D for example), which means that it could skip and duplicate for one eye, with the provision of specially made glasses.

    Martin Scorsese Says Even Films Like Precious Should Be in 3D | /Film 2010

  • "Polarised positions are damaging to what we are all trying to achieve in preventing, detecting and countering terrorism," she said.

    Ex-MI5 chief hits out at 42-day plan Valleys Mam 2008

  • The Myth of a Polarised America state, public opinion does not neatly fall into the clearly defined categories of either 'pro-choice' or 'pro-life': whatever the connotations the labels have taken on, the evidence is clear that the broad American public is not polarised on the specifics of the abortion issue.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Burke's Corner 2007

  • The Myth of a Polarised America state, public opinion does not neatly fall into the clearly defined categories of either 'pro-choice' or 'pro-life': whatever the connotations the labels have taken on, the evidence is clear that the broad American public is not polarised on the specifics of the abortion issue.

    The culture warriors and the abortion debate Burke's Corner 2007

  • Polarised light cannot be made again to pass in a certain direction through the crystal which has polarised it; nor can it again be reflected at a particular angle; so that in double-refracting crystals, these two poles, or polarised beams, are different in colour, some stones being opaque to one beam but not to the other, whilst some are opaque to both.

    The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones John Mastin

  • Polarised light is light that performs its motions continually in one mode or direction.

    The Wave Theory of Light Lord Kelvin 1909

  • Polarised light is especially useful and powerful here.

    Fragments of science, V. 1-2 John Tyndall 1856

  • Pereira's Lectures on Polarised Light, together with a Lecture on the Microscope. + 2d Edition, enlarged from the Author's Materials by

    First Impressions of the New World On Two Travellers from the Old in the Autumn of 1858 Isabella Strange Trotter 1847

  • Polarised 3D glasses use polarising filters that restrict different amounts of light to the eye - thereby creating an illusion of

    CRN Australia - News - 2010

  • Polarised arguments about the benefits and harms of breast screening are not helping women to make an informed decision.

    Latest headlines from BMJ K. McPherson 2010

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