About The Word Polarity
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Polarity
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What's The Definition Of Polarity?
[n] a relation between two opposite attributes or tendencies; "he viewed it as a balanced polarity between good and evil"
[n] 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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Polarity: mutual opposition | sign Related Terms | Find terms related to Polarity: ambiguity | ambivalence | antagonism | anteposition | antipathy | antithesis | balance | biformity | bifurcation | bilateral symmetry | clashing | collision | conflict | conformity | confrontation | confrontment | congruity | conjugation | consistency | contention | contradiction | contradistinction | contraindication | contraposition | contrariety | contrast | correspondence | counterposition | cross-purposes | dichotomy | disagreement | discrepancy | doubleness | doublethink | doubling | dualism | duality | duplexity | duplication | duplicity | dynamic symmetry | equality | equilibrium | equivocality | eurythmics | eurythmy | evenness | finish | halving | harmony | hostility | inconsistency | inimicalness | irony | Janus | keeping | magnetic axis | magnetic pole | multilateral symmetry | N pole | negative pole | north pole | opposing | oppositeness | opposition | opposure | oppugnance | oppugnancy | pairing | parallelism | perversity | polar opposition | polarization | pole | posing against | positive pole | proportion | proportionality | regularity | repugnance | S pole | shapeliness | showdown | south pole | symmetricalness | symmetry | trilateral symmetry | twinning | two-facedness | twoness | uniformity See Also | oppositeness | opposition Polarity In Webster's Dictionary \Po*lar"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. polarit['e].]
1. (Physics) That quality or condition of a body in virtue of
which it exhibits opposite, or contrasted, properties or
powers, in opposite, or contrasted, parts or directions;
or a condition giving rise to a contrast of properties
corresponding to a contrast of positions, as, for example,
attraction and repulsion in the opposite parts of a
magnet, the dissimilar phenomena corresponding to the
different sides of a polarized ray of light, etc.
2. (Geom.) 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.
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