polar
adjective
[ ˈpəʊlə ]
• relating to the North or South Pole.
• "the polar regions"
Similar:
Arctic,
Antarctic,
cold,
frozen,
freezing,
frigid,
chill,
chilling,
icy,
icy-cold,
glacial,
gelid,
Siberian,
Baltic,
boreal,
hyperborean,
circumpolar,
brumal,
borean,
hyperboreal,
• having electrical or magnetic polarity.
• directly opposite in character or tendency.
• "depression and its polar opposite, mania"
Similar:
opposite,
opposed,
opposing,
oppositional,
diametrically opposed,
extreme,
contrary,
contradictory,
antithetical,
antagonistic,
conflicting,
counterbalancing,
antitypical,
antonymous,
antipodal,
contrarious,
dichotomous,
oppositive,
polar
noun
• the straight line joining the two points at which tangents from a fixed point touch a conic section.
• a variable binary star which emits strongly polarized light, one component being a strongly magnetic white dwarf.
Origin:
mid 16th century: from medieval Latin polaris ‘heavenly’, from Latin polus ‘end of an axis’ (see pole2).
