Hostile Witness. A witness at a trial who is so adverse to the party that called him or her that he or she can be cross-examined as though called to testify by the opposing party. The Federal Rules of Evidence provide that witnesses who are hostile, or adverse, can be interrogated through the use of leading questions. hostile witness
Polar wander. Polar wander is the motion of a pole in relation to a fixed reference frame. It can be used, for example, to measure the degree to which Earth's magnetic poles have been observed to move relative to the Earth's rotation axis.
Light polarized in the plane is said to be p-polarized, while that polarized perpendicular to it is s-polarized. At a special angle known as Brewster's angle, no p-polarized light is reflected from the surface, thus all reflected light must be s-polarized, with an electric field perpendicular to the plane of incidence. polarizer or polariser is an optical filter that passes light of a specific polarization and blocks waves of other polarizations.