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polarisation en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

Borrowed from French polarisation. By surface analysis, polarise + -ation or polar + -isation.

Meanings

  1. (UK, alt-of, countable, nonstandard, uncountable) Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of polarization.
    • One wonders whether such an event, a conscious, improbable-but-made-probable event, took place at the time of creation, the act itself being nothing but a polarisation (or separation quality-wise) of the attributeless Nirguna, a separation of zero plus x and minus x. This is indeed the genesis of the Big Bang theory of science. 1979, Bhavan’s Journal, XXV, issues 13-26, 269/1:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
polarisations Number=Plur lexicographic
polarization alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

polarisation time · repolarisation · multipolarisation