| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Faraday rotation | Electrical Engineering | A phenomenon of rotation about the direction of propagation of the electric flux density vector of a linearly polarized electromagnetic wave as it passes through a gyromagnetic medium subjected to any magnetostatic field having a component along the direction of propagation. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Faraday Rotation | Physics | 1: The orientation of the electric field vector of an electromagnetic wave propagating parallel to a magnetic field embedded in a plasma rotates as the wave propagates. This rotation is called Faraday rotation and measurements of it can be used to deduce the strength of the magnetic field. (references) | |
| 2: The rotation of the plane of polarization of light passing through a magnetized plasma. See polarimetry. (references) | |||
| Faraday rotation | Space | The rotation of the orientation angle of the polarization ellipse of an EM wave as it propagates through a medium such as the ionosphere. (references) | |
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