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POLARITY (Lat. polaris, poles, pole)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 932 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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POLARITY (
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Lat. polaris, poles,
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pole)  , having two poles or parts at which certain properties are the opposite to one another, as in a :magnet the ends of which have opposite magnetic characters . The
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act of producing
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polarity is termed polarization . For electrolytic polarization see
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BATTERY and
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ELECTROLYSIS, and for
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optical see POLARIZATION OF
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LIGHT below .

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