bipolar
IPA: baɪpˈoʊɫɝ
noun
- (countable) A bipolar cell.
- (uncountable) Ellipsis of bipolar disorder. [(clinical psychology, psychiatry) A psychiatric diagnostic category, previously called manic depression, characterised by mood swings between great energy (mania) and clinical depression.]
adjective
- Involving or having both extremes or poles at the same time.
- Relating to both polar regions.
- (physics) Relating to a bipole.
- Relating to or having bipolar disorder.
- (politics) Of or relating to an international system in which two states wield most of the cultural, economic, and political influence.
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Examples of "bipolar" in Sentences
- In psychiatry, the term bipolar disorder now is preferred.
- The word bipolar refers to the two poles of energetic extremes.
- (I am not joking) is what I call a bipolar structure of government.
- He only wishes such understanding of what he calls a bipolar "disposition" had existed when Kay was still alive.
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