Search the Dictionary

Bipolar quality.

out the pole; -- applied to stars that revolve around the pole without setting; as, circumpolar stars.

The act of depriving of polarity, or the result of such action; reduction to an unpolarized condition. Depolarization of light (Opt.), a change in the plane of polarization of rays, especially by a crystalline medium, such that the light which had been extinguished by the analyzer reappears as if the polarization had b…

To deprive of polarity; to reduce to an unpolarized condition.

A substance used to prevent polarization, as upon the negative plate of a voltaic battery.

Having two poles, as a magnetic bar.

Possessing electrical polarity; positively electrified at one end, or on one surface, and negatively at the other; -- said of a conductor.

Not according to or in, the direction of the poles. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Having many poles; -- applied especially to those ganglionic nerve cells which have several radiating processes.

Situated below the poles.

A polariscope arranged to be attached to a telescope. Lockyer.

to those ganglionic nerve cells which have but one radiating process; -- opposed to multipolar. Unipolar induction (Elec.), induction, as in a conducting circuit, by only one pole of a magnet. -- Unipolar stimulation (Physiol.), the simulation sometimes produced when one electrode of an induction apparatus is applied…

Electrically polarized like the surface of the zinc presented to the acid in a battery, which has zincous affinity. [Obs.]

The white polar (Populus alba). Six abeles i' the churchyard grow. Mrs. Browning.

Extending over all the zones, from the tropics to the polar zones inclusive.

The part of a polariscope which receives the light after polarization, and exhibits its properties.

In a curve referred to polar coördinates, any point for which the radius vector is a maximum or minimum.

osition or direction: thus, a suspended magnetic needle, when rendered astatic, loses its polarity, or tendency to point in a given direction. Astatic pair (Magnetism), a pair of magnetic needles so mounted as to be nearly or quite astatic, as in some galvanometers.

center about which it vibrates, and perpendicular to the plane of vibration. -- Axis of polarization, the central line around which the prismatic rings or curves are arranged. Brewster. -- Axis of revolution (Descriptive Geom.), a straight line about which some line or plane is revolved, so that the several points o…

Having two axes; as, biaxial polarization. Brewster. -- Bi*ax"i*al*ly, adv.