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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 (See also:Lat. polaris, poles, See also: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 See also:act of producing polarity is termed polarization. For electrolytic polarization see See also:BATTERY and See also:ELECTROLYSIS, and for See also:optical see POLARIZATION OF See also:LIGHT below.

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