Polar definition

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Serving as a guide, as a polestar or a pole of the earth.
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Relating to, connected with, or located near the North Pole or South Pole.
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The definition of polar is something related to the South or North poles.

An example of polar is a polar bear from the Arctic.

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Occupying or characterized by opposite extremes.
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Relating to a pole, such as the pole of a magnet or one of the electrodes of an electrolytic cell.
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Central or pivotal.
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Of or relating to a pole.
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Measured from or referred to a pole.

Polar distance; polar diameter.

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Passing over a planet's north and south poles.

A polar orbit.

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Traveling in an orbit that passes over a planet's north and south poles.
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(chemistry) Relating to or characterized by a dipole.

A polar molecule.

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Ionizing when dissolved or fused.

Polar bonds or linkages.

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Of a pole or poles.
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Having polarity.
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Opposite in character, nature, direction, etc.
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Central and guiding, like the earth's pole or the polestar.
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Of, relating to, or near the North or South pole.
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Coming from the region near the North or South pole.
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Relating to the North Pole or the South Pole of Earth, or analogous regions of another planet.
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Relating to a molecule or substance that has polar bonds.
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Of, relating to, measured from, or referred to a geographic pole (the North Pole or South Pole)
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Of an orbit that passes over, or near, one of these poles.
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(chemistry) Having a dipole; ionic.
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(mathematics) Of a coordinate system, specifying the location of a point in a plane by using a radius and an angle.
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(linguistics, of a question) Having but two possible answers, yes and no.
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Origin of polar

  • From Late Latin polāris

    From Wiktionary

Polar Sentence Examples

  • Then he annexed its colonies and thereby extended his dominions to the Polar Ocean and the Ural Mountains.

  • He proved conclusively that any southern continent that might exist lay under the polar ice.

  • Also he showed that if such an antenna had its horizontal part swivelled round into various directions the current created in a distant receiver antenna varied with the azimuth, and when plotted out in the form of a polar curve gave a curve of a peculiar figure-of-8 shape.

  • The polar regions travelled a little from west to east relatively to the equatorial, which lagged behind.

  • This voyage of the middle of the 9th century deserves to be held in happy memory, for it unites the first Norwegian polar explorer with the first English collector of travels.

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