| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Elliptical polarization | Aerospace | The polarization of a wave radiated by an electric vector rotating in a plane and simultaneously varying in amplitude so as to describe an ellipse. (references) | |
| Elliptical polarization | Business | In electromagnetic wave propagation, polarization such that the tip of the electric field vector describes an ellipse in any fixed plane intersecting, and normal to, the direction of propagation. Note 1: An elliptically polarized wave may be resolved into two linearly polarized waves in phase quadrature with their polarization planes at right angles to each other. Note 2: Circular and linear polarization are special cases of elliptical polarization. (references) | |
| Elliptical polarization | Mining | In optics, elliptically polarized light consisting of upward-spiraling vibration vectors, the surface of which is elliptical rather than circular, as in circular polarization. It is caused by the inconstant lengths of vibration vectors of mutually perpendicular plane-polarized waves whose path differences differ in phase by amounts other than (n+1)/4lambda on emergence from a crystal. (references) | |
| Elliptical polarization | Space | A polarization in which the two orthogonal components of the electric field have unequal magnitudes and a non-zero phase difference. (references) | |
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