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  • noun UK Plural form of polarisation.

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Examples

  • The same property makes the crystal appear light or dark when held up to light of different polarisations.

    Sunstones could have helped Vikings navigate from Norway to America 2011

  • A world and country of new discourses, instant communications, new threats such as terror, race, religious and cultural polarisations, industrial destruction and dynamic expansion, deep and systematic diversity: all these would make for a challenging analysis and a bouquet to any movement even mildly able to bring these disparate elements together.

    CONTENTS 2007

  • A world and country of new discourses, instant communications, new threats such as terror, race, religious and cultural polarisations, industrial destruction and dynamic expansion, deep and systematic diversity: all these would make for a challenging analysis and a bouquet to any movement even mildly able to bring these disparate elements together.

    What happened to the people? 2007

  • The second point which struck me very much as Bishop Graham was talking was how much the agenda represented by this report cuts across many familiar polarisations.

    General Synod: Archbishop remarks in the debate on the Mission-Shaped Church 2004

  • Gubbels discovered that the phenomenon is still possible at ultra-low temperatures and for specific polarisations.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • It performs four 90° phase stepped interferences between the signal and a local oscillator on both polarisations.

    optics.org all content 2009

  • Hardnews argues: There is no reason why the BJP should go against basic human decency to accept a candidate who has called for mass violence against an entire community, who has made fun and used derogatory references against another community, and who has instigated mass hysteria to create communal polarisations and potential public violence.

    unknown title 2009

  • And party politics tends to drive people towards these polarisations..

    confused of calcutta 2009

  • There is no reason why the BJP should go against basic human decency to accept a candidate who has called for mass violence against an entire community, who has made fun and used derogatory references against another community, and who has instigated mass hysteria to create communal polarisations and potential public violence.

    unknown title 2009

  • Hardnews argues: There is no reason why the BJP should go against basic human decency to accept a candidate who has called for mass violence against an entire community, who has made fun and used derogatory references against another community, and who has instigated mass hysteria to create communal polarisations and potential public violence.

    unknown title 2009

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