plane-polarized

1. 1.

   (of a moving wave) vibrating in a single plane

   “plane-polarized light”

Questions about plane-polarized

What does plane-polarized mean?

plane-polarized means "(of a moving wave) vibrating in a single plane".

How many syllables are in plane-polarized?

plane-polarized has 5 syllables and divides as plane--po-la-ri-zed under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is plane-polarized a common word?

plane-polarized is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.