Depolarize
Depolarize , transitive verb
[Prefix de- + polarize: compare French dépolarizer.]
1.
(Optics) To deprive of polarity; to reduce to an unpolarized condition.
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.
2.
(Electricity) To free from polarization, as the negative plate of the voltaic battery.