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English

Etymology

From Late Latin pol?ris , equivalent to pole + -ar.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p???l?(?)/, [?p????l?(?)]
• (US) IPA^(key): /?po??l?/, [?p?o??l?]
• Rhymes: -??l?(?)

Adjective

polar (not comparable)

1. Of or having a pole or polarity.
2. (geography) Of, relating to, measured from, or referred to a geographic pole (the North Pole or South Pole); within the Arctic or Antarctic circles.
3. (space sciences) Of an orbit that passes over, or near, one of these poles.
4. (chemistry) Having a dipole; ionic.
5. (mathematics) Of a coordinate system, specifying the location of a point in a plane by using a radius and an angle.
6. (linguistics, of a question) Having but two possible answers, yes and no.

Derived terms

• polar bear
• polar nucleus
• polar opposite

Translations

Noun

polar (plural polars)

1. (geometry) The line joining the points of contact of tangents drawn to meet a curve from a point called the pole of the line.

Anagrams

• ROLAP, parol, poral

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /po?la/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /pu?la/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /po?la?/

Adjective

polar (masculine and feminine plural polars)

1. polar

Derived terms

• ós polar

French

Etymology

From policier +? -ard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?.la?/

Noun

polar m (plural polars)

1. (informal) detective novel

Further reading

• “polar” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Pronunciation

Adjective

polar m or f (plural polares)

1. polar

Antonyms

• apolar

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po?la???/

Adjective

polar (not comparable)

1. polar

Declension

Derived terms

• Polarmeer
• Polarnacht

Further reading

• “polar” in Duden online

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From the noun pol

Pronunciation

Adjective

polar (neuter singular polart, definite singular and plural polare)

1. polar

Derived terms

• polarisere
• polarsirkel

References

• “polar” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From the noun pol

Adjective

polar (neuter singular polart, definite singular and plural polare)

1. polar

Derived terms

• polarisere
• polarsirkel

Etymology 2

Noun

polar m

1. indefinite plural of pol

References

• “polar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pol?ris, Italian polare and French polaire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po?lar/

Adjective

polar m or n (feminine singular polar?, masculine plural polari, feminine and neuter plural polare)

1. polar

Declension

Derived terms

• urs polar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po?la?/, [po?la?]
• Hyphenation: po?lar

Adjective

polar (plural polares)

1. polar

Derived terms

• apolar
• casquete polar
• estrella polar
• oso polar
• polaridad

Related terms

• polo

Further reading

• “polar” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Noun

dimethylformamide (countable and uncountable, plural dimethylformamides) (Abbreviated as: DMF)

1. (organic chemistry) The methyl substituted amide HCO-N(CH₃)₂ used as a polar solvent