Definition of polar

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Polar (a.) Pertaining to, reckoned from, or having a common radiating point; as, polar coordinates..

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Bibliopolar :: Bibliopolar (a.) Of or pertaining to the sale of books.
Unipolar :: Unipolar (a.) Having, or acting by means of, one pole only..
Polariscopy :: Polariscopy (n.) The art or rocess of making observations with the polariscope.
Polarimeter :: Polarimeter (n.) An instrument for determining the amount of polarization of light, or the proportion of polarized light, in a partially polarized ray..
Subpolygonal :: Subpolar (a.) Situated below the poles.
Levorotatory :: Levorotatory (a.) Turning or rotating the plane of polarization towards the left; levogyrate, as levulose, left-handed quartz crystals, etc..
Depolarizing :: Depolarizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depolariz.
Circumpolar :: Circumpolar (a.) About the pole; -- applied to stars that revolve around the pole without setting; as, circumpolar stars..
Depolarize :: Depolarize (v. t.) To free from polarization, as the negative plate of the voltaic battery..
Polarized :: Polarized (imp. & p. p.) of Polariz.
Lituus :: Lituus (n.) A spiral whose polar equation is r2/ = a; that is, a curve the square of whose radius vector varies inversely as the angle which the radius vector makes with a given line..
Polar :: Polar (a.) Pertaining to, reckoned from, or having a common radiating point; as, polar coordinates..
Pole :: Pole (n.) One of the opposite or contrasted parts or directions in which a polar force is manifested; a point of maximum intensity of a force which has two such points, or which has polarity; as, the poles of a magnet; the north pole of a needle..
Isotropy :: Isotropy (n.) Uniformity of physical properties in all directions in a body; absence of all kinds of polarity; specifically, equal elasticity in all directions..
Idiophanous :: Idiophanous (a.) Exhibiting interference figures without the aid of a polariscope, as certain crystals..
Depolarizer :: Depolarizer (n.) A substance used to prevent polarization, as upon the negative plate of a voltaic battery..
Polar :: Polar (a.) Of or pertaining to one of the poles of the earth, or of a sphere; situated near, or proceeding from, one of the poles; as, polar regions; polar seas; polar winds..
Pole :: Pole (n.) See Polarity, and Polar, n..
Gyroidal :: Gyroidal (a.) Turning the plane of polarization circularly or spirally to the right or left.
Periscii :: Periscii (n. pl.) Those who live within a polar circle, whose shadows, during some summer days, will move entirely round, falling toward every point of the compass..
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