polar

Meanings

Plural: polars

Adjective Satellite

• having a pair of equal and opposite charges
• characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed
  • "extreme and indefensible polar positions"
• extremely cold
  • "polar weather"
• being of crucial importance; ; - Henry Kissinger
  • "the polar events of this study"
  • "a polar principal"

Adjective

• located at or near or coming from the earth's poles
  • "polar diameter"
  • "polar zone"
  • "a polar air mass"
  • "Antarctica is the only polar continent"
• of or existing at or near a geographical pole or within the Arctic or Antarctic Circles
  • "polar regions"

Adj

• Of or having a pole or polarity, as:
• Of, relating to, measured from, or referred to a geographic pole (the North Pole or South Pole); within the Arctic or Antarctic circles.
• Of or having a pole or polarity, as:
• Of an orbit that passes over, or near, one of these poles.
• Of or having a pole or polarity, as:
• Having a dipole; ionic.
• Of or having a pole or polarity, as:
• Of a coordinate system, specifying the location of a point in a plane by using a radius and an angle.
• Of or having a pole or polarity, as:
• Having but two possible answers, yes and no.
• Of or having a pole or polarity, as:
• Of or relating to a pole (extreme) on any spectrum or field, such as an ideologically pure dogmatic position as opposed to any syncretic integration or balancing of competing principles.

Noun

• The line joining the points of contact of tangents drawn to meet a curve from a point called the pole of the line.

Synonyms

arctic, diametric, diametrical, frigid, gelid, glacial, icy, opposite, pivotal

Antonyms

equatorial

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