POLARITY
\pə͡ʊlˈaɹɪti], \pəʊlˈaɹɪti], \p_əʊ_l_ˈa_ɹ_ɪ_t_i]\
Definitions of POLARITY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a relation between two opposite attributes or tendencies; "he viewed it as a balanced polarity between good and evil"
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having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges); "he got the polarity of the battery reversed"; "charges of opposite sign"
By Princeton University
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a relation between two opposite attributes or tendencies; "he viewed it as a balanced polarity between good and evil"
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having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges); "he got the polarity of the battery reversed"; "charges of opposite sign"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A property of the conic sections by virtue of which a given point determines a corresponding right line and a given right line determines a corresponding point. See Polar, n.
By Oddity Software
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A property of the conic sections by virtue of which a given point determines a corresponding right line and a given right line determines a corresponding point. See Polar, n.
By Noah Webster.
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The quality, possessed by magnets, electromagnets, etc., of having two opposite poles, or centers of attraction, each of which exerts a force opposite to the other, one called positive, the other negative; as, the polarity of the earth; the property possessed by electrified or magnetized bodies, by which they exert directly opposite forces in opposite directions, the positive pole attracting and negative pole repelling.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A property in certain bodies by which they arrange themselves in certain directions, or point, as it were, to given poles.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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The tendency of plants to develop from the poles, roots downwards, stems upwards; the tendency of any ovum to place itself with its axis corresponding to that of the mother.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The property of having poles or of being under the influence of forces acting in the direction of poles. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. The condition in some bodies of having poles or opposite points with peculiar properties or powers inherent in these points;—in electrical or magnetized bodies, the power of attracting or repelling other bodies, and of taking or turning in a certain direction;—the property in the magnet of pointing to the poles of the earth.