He got the polarity of the battery reversed. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Since polarity is such a function-critical variable, shifts in polarity could have dramatic effects on fitness (e.g., be lethal!). From Wordnik.com. [Chunkdz Comes Out Smokin] Reference
This two-fold motion constitutes what is known as polarity -- Evolution and. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga] Reference
Hence, in place of the idea of polarity he advanced the idea of inter - play. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Probably worth checking that the polarity is the right way round before plugging it in!. From Wordnik.com. [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference
The single most important thing is to select the correct magnet polarity, which is the negative or north polarity. From Wordnik.com. [THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE] Reference
Health is satisfied polarity, that is, the balancing of the positive and negative elements in harmonious vibration. From Wordnik.com. [Nature Cure] Reference
Anyway, my polarity is back to manic so I’m ready to have an underpants party with all you guys, or whatever it is that Lunch’ers do. From Wordnik.com. [PROFILE: Midtown Lunch’er “Chris” | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan] Reference
Single polarity is unacceptable. From Wordnik.com. [August « 2008 « Niqnaq] Reference
Reversed polarity is ashock hazard only. From Wordnik.com. [Reuben's Home Inspection Blog - Part 2] Reference
There, 'body' and 'soul' represented a polarity which is obviously one of the first order. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
Here we have an instance of a kind of polarity which belongs to the fundamentals of nature as much as does the levity-gravity polarity itself. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
The current in the present instance is one of alternating polarity which is converted by this transformer into one having the required volume. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887] Reference
The value of our picture of the colour-polarity is shown further if we observe how natural phenomena based on the same kind of polarity in other realms of nature fit in with it. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
This polarity is laughable. From Wordnik.com. [Don't trust... who?] Reference
The class polarity is obvious. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » The Katrina Timeline] Reference
At the same time, the central area of the disk or core has a polarity which is said to be either up or down. From Wordnik.com. [Channel Register] Reference
It is the very same I AM that I am; and this not by any act of uncertain favour, but by the law of polarity which is the basis of all Nature. From Wordnik.com. [The Hidden Power And Other Papers upon Mental Science] Reference
For many years past, whenever I have met with "polarity" anywhere but in a discussion of some purely physical topic, such as magnetism, I have shut the book. From Wordnik.com. [Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays] Reference
The more lost they become in polarity. From Wordnik.com. [Paul David Walker: Leadership Insights: Eliminate Endless Circular Arguments] Reference
So there's not as much polarity as you might think. From Wordnik.com. [Barack's Beliefs] Reference
In the plant the same polarity appears in stalk and leaf. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
In this world, gratitude is the first function of polarity. From Wordnik.com. [Paddy Wagon] Reference
A The relation of the electrical polarity to Levity and Gravity. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
This enabled him to discover how the plant bore the same polarity in plant fashion. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
The different conditions of matter seen in the light of the levity-gravity polarity. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
In the plant, just as in man, the morphological polarity coincides with the biological. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
As a result, the single animal body shows the sphere-radius polarity much less sharply. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
Study of some prototypes of physical substances in the light of the levity-gravity polarity. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
"There's a polarity of risk-on, risk - off and it really is all about the macro-uncertainty.". From Wordnik.com. [Dow Tumbles 1.4% on Reignited Recession Worry] Reference
Both signify the occurrence of the electrical polarity at the two ends of an asymmetrically built. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
This showed that there was need for a fifth stage, at the top of the series, to establish a balanced polarity. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
Just like in Ikaruga, he'll take damage from opposite-colored bullets but will be impervious to those of the same polarity. From Wordnik.com. [Outland looks like another download-only classic] Reference
By the time the Dow bottomed in the fall of 2002, reverse polarity had set in and seers were predicting a new era of lower stock prices. From Wordnik.com. [Happy Anniversary To the Dow's High] Reference
Yet, nature is built bipolarically, and polarity-concepts are therefore indispensable for developing a true understanding of her actions. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
Flowers used his move into Americana on Sam's Town to open a canny dialogue between desire and rectitude, and to create an entire oeuvre based on this polarity. From Wordnik.com. [S.X. Rosenstock: Brandon Flowers at the Shimmer Showroom: Solo Songs Shine Light on Fear and Fire] Reference
A rapidly alternating pulse of electricity through the electromagnets in the hub changes the polarity of magnets many times each second, causing the wheel to turn. From Wordnik.com. [Spin Your Wheels, For Less] Reference
People ask why there seems to be such a division in America today, a Red State/Blue State polarity that turns the nation into two countries as different as France and England. From Wordnik.com. [MORTAL KOMBAT, ELECTION LEVEL] Reference
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