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interstellar polarization
  قطبش ِ اندر-اختری  
qotbeš-e andaraxtari
Fr.: polarisation interstellaire  

The polarization of starlight caused by aligned → interstellar grains, so that initially → unpolarized light from a star is partially polarized by the time it reaches the Earth.

See also: → interstellar; → polarization.