Polarised
Meaning
Divided into two strongly opposing groups or sets of opinions, often making agreement difficult
Pronunciation
UK /ˈpəʊləraɪzd/
US /ˈpoʊləraɪzd/
Example Sentences
- The system is remarkably robust, because bees can read polarised light in the sky even when clouds hide the sun.
- A later image in polarised light traced magnetic field lines threading the rim, hinting at how such objects fling matter halfway across a galaxy.
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How Bees Tell Each Other Where Flowers AreA honeybee can describe the exact location of a flower patch without making a single sound. She does it with a dance, performed in total darkness inside a crowded hive. When a forager returns with goo...Read story 
What the First Photographs of a Black Hole RevealedA black hole [cannot] be photographed, and yet in 2019 we did exactly that. What the Event Horizon Telescope revealed was never the hole itself, but the silhouette it carves in the incandescent gas or...Read story
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