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depolarise


1. <optics> To deprive of polarity; to reduce to an unpolarised condition.

This word has been inaccurately applied in optics to describe the effect of a polarising medium, as a crystalline plate, in causing the reappearance of a ray, in consequence of a change in its plane of polarisation, which previously to the change was intercepted by the analyser.

2. <physics> To free from polarisation, as the negative plate of the voltaic battery.

Origin: F. Depolariser.

Source: Websters Dictionary