polarity

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They are also exploring ways to expand the system's capabilities, including designs that use multiple metasurfaces to detect several wavelengths of light and their polarity at the same time.

From Science Daily • Mar. 4, 2026

While earlier work had shown that individual electron spins could be manipulated with light, this study demonstrates switching the polarity of an entire ferromagnet at once.

From Science Daily • Mar. 3, 2026

Instead, that polarity motif is more thrillingly captured when Eve fends off a flamethrower with a fire hose.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2025

Griffin mines the polarity between her envelope-pushing persona and the buttoned-up glamour of A-List celebrity with aplomb to reveal that even the biggest stars are as absurd as the rest of us.

From Salon • Oct. 28, 2024

When she stopped, it was as though some momentous change of polarity had taken place inside her mind, one that had an immediate, pacifying effect on her body.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger