POLARIZATION Synonyms

• state of being disconnected

• an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding)

• the act of breaking a connection

• lack of unity (usually resulting from dissension)

• an army unit large enough to sustain combat

• one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole

• the act or process of dividing

• an administrative unit in government or business

• discord that splits a group

• a league ranked by quality

• (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category

• (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum

• a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings

• a group of ships of similar type

• an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed

• the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart

• separation resulting from hostility

• the feeling of being alienated from other people

• separating something into fine particles

• the disintegration of social norms governing behavior and thought and social relationships

• (computer science) the condition of a file that is broken up and stored in many different locations on a magnetic disk

• the scattering of bomb fragments after the bomb explodes

• the act of departing politely

• a line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions

• (genetics) the separation of paired alleles during meiosis so that members of each pair of alleles appear in different gametes

• a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups

• the act of segregating or sequestering

• the state of lacking unity

• coming apart

• the distance between things

• sorting one thing from others

• the social act of separating or parting company

• the space where a division or parting occurs

• the termination of employment (by resignation or dismissal)

• (law) the cessation of cohabitation of man and wife (either by mutual agreement or under a court order)

• the act of dividing or disconnecting

• extending the legs at right angles to the trunk (one in front and the other in back)

• an old Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea

• a bottle containing half the usual amount

• a promised or claimed share of loot or money

• a lengthwise crack in wood

• an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart

• a dessert of sliced fruit and ice cream covered with whipped cream and cherries and nuts

• (tenpin bowling) a divided formation of pins left standing after the first bowl

• an increase in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity

• the act of rending or ripping or splitting something

• division of a group into opposing factions

• having been divided; having the unity destroyed

• (especially of wood) cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain

• separate into parts or portions

• separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument

• discontinue an association or relation; go different ways

• go one's own way; move apart

• come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure

• the condition of having or giving polarity

• the phenomenon in which waves of light or other radiation are restricted in direction of vibration