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Language:enStatus: Standard
Term: polarization, <of an electromagnetic wave>
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Definition: property of a sinusoidal electromagnetic wave defined at a fixed point in space by the direction of the electric field strength vector or of any specified field vector

Note 1 to entry: When the direction of the vector varies with time, the property can be characterized by the locus described by the extremity of the considered field vector.


Publication date:2020-04
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Replaces:705-01-13:1995-09
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