PLANE-POLARIZED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plane-polarized mean? 

• PLANE-POLARIZED (adjective)
  The adjective PLANE-POLARIZED has 1 sense:

1. (of a moving wave) vibrating in a single plane

  Familiarity information: PLANE-POLARIZED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLANE-POLARIZED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of a moving wave) vibrating in a single plane

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

plane-polarized light

Pertainym:

polarization (the phenomenon in which waves of light or other radiation are restricted in direction of vibration)

 Context examples 

The ability of a chiral substance to rotate the plane of polarization of a beam of transmitted plane-polarized light, either clockwise (to the right) or counterclockwise (to the left).

(Optical Rotation, NCI Thesaurus)