polarisation

The polarisation is by no means total: Oxford’s alumni include the reformer John Wyclif and the father of economics Adam Smith, while ours include the Prime Minister Charles Grey, who abolished slavery and passed the Great Reform Bill.

Discourse.net: Cambridge University -- the Unauthorised History 2009

Though, I imagine it might necessary to contextualise that – ie what polarisation is occurring that’s resulted in increased violence against trans people ..

Every 15 days, another trans person is murdered in Turkey 2009

They go to Macedonia, kill a few cops, the Macedonian police reacts and before you know it you have a polarisation were the Albanians are like one man behind separatist demands.

Kosovo snips another cord | afoe | A Fistful of Euros | European Opinion 2010

This is an illustration of what is called polarisation of light.

The Wave Theory of Light Lord Kelvin 1909

That the energy in any part of the medium is stored up in the form of a constraint called polarisation, dependent on the resultant electromotive force (the difference of potentials between two conductors) at the place.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Various 1909

I've been recognising this "polarisation" effect since 2005/6.

Bespoke e-learning should really add value Clive Shepherd 2007

"The way in which we have dealt with this in society does not reflect well on us and the kind of polarisation on this issue leaves much to be desired."

ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

"Yet if the media insists on taking sides and on false reporting then they must accept full responsibility for the conflict, distrust and polarisation which is sure to follow,"

ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

The former talked utter nonsense about the "harmony of nature" produced by "polarisation," alike in "rocks, plants and animals," etc.etc. etc.

Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 James Marchant

If, later in life, I have been charmed by Mount Hermon, and the sunheated slopes of the Anti-Lebanon, it is due to the polarisation which is the law of love and which leads us to seek out our opposites.

Recollections of My Youth Renan, Ernest, 1823-1892 1897