polarity
IPA: poʊɫˈɛrʌti
noun
- The separation, alignment or orientation of something into two opposed poles.
- Either of the two extremes of such attributes.
- (chemistry) The dipole-dipole intermolecular forces between the slightly positively-charged end of one molecule to the negative end of another or the same molecule. ᵂᵖ
- (embryology) The division of an embryo into an animal pole and a vegetal pole within a blastula. ᵂᵖ
- (microbiology) Spatial differences in shape, structure, and function within a cell. ᵂᵖ
- (electricity) A measure of the electrical potential at the ends of a circuit. ᵂᵖ
- (physics) The direction of a wave's amplitude or its being in phase or antiphase.
- (grammar) The grammatical category of the affirmative and the negative. ᵂᵖ
- (projective geometry) A duality that is an involution, i.e. has order two. ᵂᵖ
- (mathematics) An indicator of the positivity or negativity of a literal. ᵂᵖ
- (politics) Any of the various ways in which power is distributed within the international system. ᵂᵖ
- (gender) The concept of dualism between masculine and feminine. ᵂᵖ
- (physics) Ellipsis of magnetic polarity. [(physics) the state of being a north pole or south pole; the magnetic equivalent of electric charge]
- (geometry) Ellipsis of trilinear polarity. [A correspondence between the points in the plane of a triangle not lying on the sides of the triangle and lines in the plane of the triangle not passing through the vertices of the triangle.]
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Examples of "polarity" in Sentences
- Hence, in place of the idea of polarity he advanced the idea of inter - play.
- The single most important thing is to select the correct magnet polarity, which is the negative or north polarity.
- Since polarity is such a function-critical variable, shifts in polarity could have dramatic effects on fitness (e.g., be lethal!).
- Anyway, my polarity is back to manic so I’m ready to have an underpants party with all you guys, or whatever it is that Lunch’ers do.
- This polarity is reflected in cinema as well, with the substance most commonly depicted as either a hilarious holy grail or a gateway to harder, darker substances.
- In a duality however — or in a polarity, which is an intensified duality — the entities that are opposed are expected to be different, and even contrary, by contrast, or otherwise.
- We now move to the other pole of the primary polarity, that is to the plane, and let the sphere arise by imagining the plane approaching an infinitely distant point evenly from all sides.
- If we accept the word polarity as a name for the force by which inorganic units are aggregated into a form peculiar to them, we may apply this word to the analogous force displayed by organic limits. "
- This is not simply a matter of reversing the polarity, that is, of subverting the religious significance of Jerusalem in order to privilege Baghdad, for Turkish materialism is revealed to be as hollow as Jewish religiosity.
- It has been demonstrated that the five new gases, or "noble gases" as they are often called, form a natural family of elements which by the absence of electric polarity is strictly differentiated from all elements previously known, filling a void in the periodic system hitherto existing between the highly negative halogens and the highly positive alkali metals.
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