Polarity Sentence Examples

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  • A small permanent magnet is always liable to become demagnetized, or have its polarity reversed by the action of lightning.

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  • Even a permanent magnet is susceptible of induction, its polarity becoming thereby strengthened, weakened, or possibly reversed.

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  • Orange sits just above red as the polarity chakra.

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  • Might we eventually return to the iniquitous polarity of a land-owning gentry v the serfs?

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  • In fact the field has reversed polarity many times.

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  • The yin yang concept of polarity is a balance of energetic forces.

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  • As each sign alternates, they also reflect a polarity (positive/negative, yin/yang and masculine/feminine).

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  • As centuries passed the concept of ying and yang, commonly referred to as yin yang, evolved to represent the Chinese philosophy of the dual polarity and balance of everything in the universe.

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  • This constant ebb and flow of energy, or constant change, relates to the yin yang concept of polarity.

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  • The complex philosophies of the yin yang concepts may change based on Daoism, Buddhism or the western culture, but the basic concepts of polarity, duality, infinity and balance of yin yang theory remains the same throughout belief systems.

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  • This question arises if the person is unfamiliar with the powerful symbol that embodies the essence of the ancient Chinese philosophy of the dual polarity of everything in the universe.

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  • This pairing exemplifies two strong signs whose polarity works to attract, and then to drive them apart eventually.

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  • Yet it will be magnetized; for if it is cut through and the cut ends are drawn apart, each end will be found to exhibit polarity.

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  • The first part of the epistle deals generally with magnetic attractions and repulsions, with the polarity of the stone, and with the supposed influence of the poles of the heavens upon the poles of the stone.

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  • He also found that the polarity which minerals receive from heat has a relation to the secondary forms of their crystals - the tourmaline, for example, having its resinous pole at the summit of the crystal which has three faces.

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  • Further, the eye is endowed with polarity, by which its activity is divided into two parts qualitatively distinct.

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  • Everything I've said here can be understood in terms of the polarity of precision and meaning discussed in the previous article.

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  • If the polarity of the voltage is reversed the current changes direction but its size is unchanged.

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  • Reverse Polarity Protection is built into the beacon and achieved with negligible power loss by using a FET instead of a diode.

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  • Polarity is clearly seen in Vibrio cholerae, a highly motile pathogen that swims by rapidly rotating a single polar flagellum.

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  • Secondly, it decreases the open flux by increasing the length of the polarity inversion line where flux cancelation occurs.

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  • You again get a polar molecule, although with a reversed polarity from the first example.

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  • These produce a uniform electric field between the plates of opposite polarity.

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  • But he did find that the magnetic polarity was the opposite of the Earth's present magnetic field.

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  • To support or challenge a claim, one uses relations with either positive or negative polarity.

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  • Connect a suitable power supply being sure to observe correct polarity.

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  • We found no significant increase in the detection efficiency for either radioisotope with the MCP bias polarity reversed.

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  • Epithelial planar cell polarity refers to situations in which cells become polarized within the plane of an epithelium.

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  • Ulysses reached maximum southern latitudes in late 2000, before solar polarity reversal had occurred.

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  • They are quite soluble in the usual organic solvents of low polarity.

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  • Thus in A the twist may be right-handed or left-handed; in B the polarity of a given end may become north or south; in C the circular magnetization may be clockwise or counter-clockwise; in D the length may be increased or diminished; in E the magnetization may become stronger or weaker.

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  • The old doctrine of types, which was used by the philosophically minded zoologists (and botanists) of the first half 1 A very subtle and important qualification of this generalization has to be recognized (and was recognized by Darwin) in the fact that owing to the interdependence of the parts of the bodies of living things and their profound chemical interactions and peculiar structural balance (what is called organic polarity) the variation of one single part (a spot of colour, a tooth, a claw, a leaflet) may, and demonstrably does in many cases entail variation of other parts - what are called correlated variations.

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  • By reversing the polarity of the voltage, the atoms can be re-deposited anywhere on the silicon surface.

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  • This voltage has opposite polarity to the supply voltage on the coil.

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  • Most thermal vision goggles or binoculars are fairly compact for ease of use and also offer adjustable focus and selectable polarity.

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  • T Malus gave the name of polarization, as he attributed it, on the emission theory of light, to a kind of polarity of the light-corpuscles.

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  • Also included within this test is a polarity and earth fault loop impedance test of up to 10% of the sockets.

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  • The wire will in fact become temporarily magnetized by induction, that end of it which is nearest to the pole of the magnet acquiring opposite polarity, and behaving as if it were the pole of a permanent magnet.

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  • When Clerk Maxwell pointed out the way to the common origin of optical and electrical phenomena, these equations naturally came to repose on an electric basis, the connexion having been first definitely exhibited by FitzGerald in 1878; and according as the independent variable was one or other of the vectors which represent electric force, magnetic force or electric polarity, they took the form appropriate to one or other of the elastic theories above mentioned.

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  • Ampere had already previously shown that a spiral conductor or solenoid when traversed by an electric current possesses magnetic polarity, and that two such solenoids act upon one another when traversed by electric currents as if they were magnets.

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  • Weber's theory, the molecules of a ferromagnetic metal are small permanent magnets, the axes of which under ordinary conditions are turned indifferently in every direction, so that no magnetic polarity is exhibited by the metal as a whole; a magnetic force acting upon the metal tends to turn the axes of the little magnets in one direction, and thus the entire piece acquires the properties of a magnet.

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  • This theory of complementary colours as due to the polarity in the qualitative action of the retina is followed by some criticism of Newton and the seven colours, by an attempt to explain some facts noted by Goethe, and by some reference to the external stimuli which cause colour.

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  • Tyndall's first original work in physical science was in his experiments with regard to magnetism and diamagnetic polarity, on which he was chiefly occupied from 1850 to 1855.

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  • He quotes a passage on the polarity of the lodestone from a treatise translated by Albertus Magnus, attributed by the latter to Aristotle, but apparently only an Arabic compilation from the works of various philosophers.

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  • This great event was preceded by the general Portu- utilization in Europe of the polarity of the magnetic guese ex- needle in the construction of the mariner's compass.

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