- Polarization (waves), the orientation of oscillations in the plane perpendicular to a transversal wave's direction of travel
- Dielectric polarization, charge separation in insulating materials:
- Polarization density, volume dielectric polarization
- Dipolar polarization, orientation of permanent dipoles
- Ionic polarization, displacement of ions in a crystal
- Maxwell-Wagner-Sillars polarization, slow long-distance charge separation in dielectric spectroscopy on inhomogeneous soft matter
- Polarization (corrosion), a change in the equilibrium potential of an electrochemical reaction
[edit] In mathematics
- Polarization of an Abelian variety, in the mathematics of complex manifolds
- Polarization of an algebraic form, a technique for expressing a homogeneous polynomial in a simpler fashion by adjoining more variables
[edit] In the social sciences
- Polarization (politics), the process by which the public opinion divides and goes to the extremes
- Polarization (psychology), the process whereby a social or political group is divided into opposing sub-groups
- Social polarization
- Group polarization
- Attitude polarization
- Racial polarization, the process whereby a population with varyingly diverse ancestry is divided into distinct, homogenous racial groups
[edit] See also
- Polarity (disambiguation)
- Polarizer, a device which polarizes light
- Depolarization and hyperpolarization of neuronal membrane potentials (in neuroscience).
- Category:Polarization, for articles about polarization of light and other electromagnetic waves
- Polarization in astronomy
- Induced polarization, a geophysical imaging technique used to identify subsurface materials
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