##  [Polarization](/polarization) 

  ##  [Polarization](https://algebra.quantumdictionary.io/polarization-0) 

  

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Definition

A procedure that associates a symmetric multilinear form (the polarized form) to a homogeneous polynomial by evaluating the polynomial on linear combinations of variables and extracting multilinear coefficients; it 'linearizes' homogeneous polynomials.