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How to use polarity in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun

Polarity means the separation, alignment or orientation of something into two opposed poles. Example: “The debate revealed the sharp polarity of opinion.”

Examples of polarity by meaning

nounThe separation, alignment or orientation of something into two opposed poles.

  • The debate revealed the sharp polarity of opinion.

nounA measure of the electrical potential at the ends of a circuit. ᵂᵖ.

  • positive and negative polarity
  • The experiment tested the polarity of the electrical current.

More sentences with polarity

  • It is seen that the mental changes are occasioned by a change of polarity.From the entry occasion
  • Columns with varying polarities, varying internal diameters, and different lengths have been utilized in metabonomic studies.2021, Gas Chromatography, page 729. From the entry metabonomic
  • Modern units deliver a biphasic shock, during which the shock polarity is reversed mid-shock.2013, Brian R. Walker, Nicki R Colledge, Stuart H. Ralston, Davidson's Principles and Practice of Medicine. From the entry midshock
  • We should thus be careful never to accept such parallelings of polarities without question.1986, Richard Hornby, Drama, Metadrama and Perception, page 14. From the entry paralleling
  • The polarity of the ethanol molecule makes ethanol water misable, but not fat misable.1984, James T. Hartford, Thaddeus Samorajski, Alcoholism in the elderly: social and biomedical issues, page 153. From the entry misable
  • They provide the apicobasal polarity of tubular cells and regulate the paracellular flux of molecules between urine and interstitium.2015 July 6, “Shear Stress-Induced Alteration of Epithelial Organization in Human Renal Tubular Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry apicobasal
  • Without significance except as vignettes, as interesting discords, as pleasurable because vivid examples of the algedonic polarity of existence.1965, John Fowles, The Magus, Boston: Little, Brown, Part 2, Chapter 29, p. 161. From the entry algedonic
  • This requirement exists as it is necessary to interconnect each subjunction in the stack, which requires reversing the n-p polarity between the subcells.2022, Aliaksandr S. Bandarenka, Energy Materials, page 158. From the entry subjunction
  • Metzger's group synthesized a molecule that had an internal energetic lineup of orbitals, which varied depending on the polarity of the voltage applied to it.2002, Understanding Artificial Intelligence. From the entry lineup
  • This indicates that the electrons producing the X-rays are also accelerated at this location, that could be in the strong electric field from counterstreamers of opposite polarity.2016, N. Østgaard, B. E. Carlson, R. S. Nisi, T. Gjesteland, Ø. Grøndahl, A. Skeltved, N. G. Lehtinen, A. Mezentsev, M. Marisaldi, P.…. From the entry counterstreamers
  • More important, the electrons on the surface of the material remember their magnetic spin, so data can be stored by reversing the polarity of a bit.2014 February 10, Lucas Mearian, “Graphene-like 3D Material May Advance Storage”, in Computerworld, volume 48, number 2, Framingham…. From the entry 3DTDS
  • It occurred despite a sensitivity test of the system a few days before liftoff to confirm live activity and correct polarity of all of the rate gyros.2001, Walter Edward Hammond, Design Methodologies for Space Transportation Systems, page 696. From the entry misclock
  • Observe that the second melodic interval is deemed to exist in imitation of the first through the repetition of magnitude but not polarity through an "inverse" secondary zygon of pitch.2012, Adam Ockelford, Applied Musicology: Using Zygonic Theory to Inform Music Education, Therapy, and Psychology Research, page 106. From the entry zygon

Meaning of polarity

  1. noun The separation, alignment or orientation of something into two opposed poles.
  2. noun Either of the two extremes of such attributes.
  3. noun The dipole-dipole intermolecular forces between the slightly positively-charged end of one molecule to the negative end of another or the same molecule. ᵂᵖ.

Full definition of polarity

Questions about polarity in a sentence

How do you use polarity in a sentence?
Polarity is used as a noun. For example: “The debate revealed the sharp polarity of opinion.”
What is a short sentence with polarity?
“positive and negative polarity”
What does polarity mean?
Polarity means the separation, alignment or orientation of something into two opposed poles.

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