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PLANE-POLARIZED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does plane-polarized mean?
• PLANE-POLARIZED (adjective)
The adjective PLANE-POLARIZED has 1 sense:
1. (of a moving wave) vibrating in a single plane
Familiarity information: PLANE-POLARIZED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of a moving wave) vibrating in a single plane
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Context example:
plane-polarized light
Pertainym:
polarization (the phenomenon in which waves of light or other radiation are restricted in direction of vibration)
Context examples
The ability of a chiral substance to rotate the plane of polarization of a beam of transmitted plane-polarized light, either clockwise (to the right) or counterclockwise (to the left).
(Optical Rotation, NCI Thesaurus)
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