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polar
('p/oU/l/@/r
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adjective (a)
- located at or near or coming from the earth's poles(adj.pert)Example:
Polar diameter.
Polar zone.
A polar air mass.
Antarctica is the only polar continent.
source: wordnet30 - of or existing at or near a geographical pole or within the Arctic or Antarctic Circles(adj.all)Example:
Polar regions.
source: wordnet30 - 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.(adjective)source: webster1913
noun (n)
- The right line drawn through the two points of contact of the two tangents drawn from a given point to a given conic section. The given point is called the pole of the line. If the given point lies within the curve so that the two tangents become imaginary, there is still a real polar line which does not meet the curve, but which possesses other properties of the polar. Thus the focus and directrix are pole and polar. There are also poles and polar curves to curves of higher degree than the second, and poles and polar planes to surfaces of the second degree.(noun)source: webster1913
adjective satellite (s)
- having a pair of equal and opposite charges(adj.all)source: wordnet30
- characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed(adj.all)Example:
Extreme and indefensible polar positions.
source: wordnet30 - being of crucial importance(adj.all)Example:
The polar events of this study.
A polar principal.
source: wordnet30
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