Depolarize
v. t.- (Opt.) To deprive of polarity; to reduce to an unpolarized condition.
- (Elec.) To free from polarization, as the negative plate of the voltaic battery.
This word has been inaccurately applied in optics to describe the effect of a polarizing medium, as a crystalline plate, in causing the reappearance of a ray, in consequence of a change in its plane of polarization, which previously to the change was intercepted by the analyzer.
