Polarity
High Speed Rail (Crewe – Manchester) Environmental Statement, Glossary, abbreviations and references, published by the Department for Transport in 2022, defines polarity as a: ‘Term used to describe the measurement of the magnetic response identified during a geophysical survey. An anomaly can have a positive or negative polarity.’
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