Polarization or polarisation can also refer to:
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- Polarization (waves), the orientation of oscillations in the plane perpendicular to a transversal wave's direction of travel
- Dielectric polarization, charge separation in insulating materials:
- Spin polarization, the degree by which the spin of elementary particles is aligned to a given direction
- Photon polarization, the mathematical link between wave polarization and spin polarization
- Vacuum polarization, a process in which a background electromagnetic field produces virtual electron-positron pairs
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