Wiktionary
alt. (context physics English) light in which the electric and magnetic fields each vibrate in a single plane n. (context physics English) light in which the electric and magnetic fields each vibrate in a single plane
Usage examples of "polarized light".
Like amino acids, circularly polarized light comes in either left or right orientations, and will preferentially break up molecules of the opposite hand.
Researchers using the Anglo-Australian Telescope have found star-forming regions bathed in circularly polarized light, and we may owe our existence to the sun itself being formed in such a region.
For instance, one time I was talking about polarized light, and I gave them all some strips of polaroid.
The spindizzy screen which completely englobed the flying city was itself invisible, but it would pass only elliptically polarized light, so that it blurred the points which were stars seen from space, and took them down in brilliance about three magnitudes to boot.
The bar graphs for polarized light and thermal energy have been removed.
Jameson early to-day, a rather abstruse subject, this of polarized light.
He knew that these spectacles were supposed to blank out polarized light, let him see the Sun itself.
There wasn't breeze enough for me to tell anything by wetting my finger and that polarized light trick for finding the Sun is harder than you would think.
Under the polarized light of the moon, the artificial silicate strands woven cleverly into the stainless aluminum alloy of the palace structure sparked a faint violet against the metallic sheen of their surroundings.
Under the polarized light of the moon, the artificial silicate strands woven cleverly into the stainless aluminium alloy of the palace structure sparked a faint violet against the metallic sheen of their surroundings.