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polar

[ poh-ler ]

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adjective

polar

/ ˈpəʊlə /

situated at or near, coming from, or relating to either of the earth's poles or the area inside the Arctic or Antarctic Circles
polar regions
having or relating to a pole or poles
pivotal or guiding in the manner of the Pole Star
directly opposite, as in tendency or character
chem
1. Alsoheteropolar (of a molecule or compound) being or having a molecule in which there is an uneven distribution of electrons and thus a permanent dipole moment
  water has polar molecules
2. (of a crystal or substance) being or having a crystal that is bound by ionic bonds
  sodium chloride forms polar crystals

polar

/ pō′lər /

Relating to a pole, such as the pole of a magnet or one of the electrodes of an electrolytic cell.
Relating to the North Pole or the South Pole of Earth, or analogous regions of another planet.
Relating to a molecule or substance that has polar bonds.

Origin of polar¹

From the Medieval Latin word polāris, dating back to 1545–55. See pole ², -ar ¹

The weather, the conditions, you can imagine it—a polar bear in a desert, with a swimming pool 50 centimetres deep.

Shaked spoke in these generalities initially—referring to two sets of people, two polar opposites on a pendulum.

Sykes suspects that the hairs come from either an unrecognized bear species, or an unknown hybrid of polar bear and brown bear.

She would leave every day of shooting during the polar vortex just grinning from ear-to-ear.

The world of the military is to the writer admittedly “the polar opposite” of his own.

Long before that, however, the sun had come back to gladden the Polar regions, and break up the reign of ancient night.

The same would be the case if the polar axis of one sphere stood precisely at right angles to that of the other.

Thus the wide habitability of the earth is an effect arising from the inclination of its polar axis.

Let us conceive a particle of air situated immediately over the earth's polar axis.

On the equatorial side this air is moving more rapidly than it is on the polar side.

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