depolarize Meaning, Definition & Usage
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verb eliminate the polarization of
depolarise.
WordNet
De*po"lar*ize transitive verb
Etymology
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Definitions
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(Opt.) To deprive of polarity; to reduce to an unpolarized condition. ✍ This word has been inaccurately applied in optics to describe the effect of a polarizing medium, as a crystalline plate, in causing the reappearance of a ray, in consequence of a change in its plane of polarization, which previously to the change was intercepted by the analyzer. -
(Elec.) To free from polarization, as the negative plate of the voltaic battery.