different between polarity vs juxtaposition

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??lær?ti/
• Rhymes: -æ??ti

Noun

polarity (countable and uncountable, plural polarities)

1. The separation, alignment or orientation of something into two opposed poles.
2. Either of the two extremes of such attributes.
3. (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
4. (embryology) The division of an embryo into an animal pole and a vegetal pole within a blastula. ^Wp
5. (microbiology) Spatial differences in shape, structure, and function within a cell. ^Wp
6. (electricity) A measure of the electrical potential at the ends of a circuit. ^Wp
7. (physics) The direction of a wave's amplitude or its being in phase or antiphase.
8. (grammar) The grammatical category of the affirmative and the negative. ^Wp
9. (projective geometry) A duality that is an involution, i.e. has order two. ^Wp
10. (mathematics) An indicator of the positivity or negativity of a literal. ^Wp
11. (politics) Any of the various ways in which power is distributed within the international system. ^Wp
12. (gender) The concept of dualism between masculine and feminine. ^Wp
13. (physics) Ellipsis of magnetic polarity
14. (geometry) Ellipsis of trilinear polarity

Derived terms

• magnetic polarity
• trilinear polarity
• polarity epoch

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• juxta-position

Etymology

From French juxtaposition, from Latin iuxt? (“near”) (from Latin iung? (“to join”)) + French position (“position”) (from Latin p?n? (“to place”)).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?d??k.st?.p??z??.?n/

Noun

juxtaposition (countable and uncountable, plural juxtapositions)

1. The nearness of objects with little or no delimiter.
   • 1809, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Friend

     It is the object of the mechanical atomistic philosophy to confound synthesis with synartesis, or rather with mere juxtaposition of corpuscles separated by invisible interspaces.

   1. (grammar) An absence of linking elements in a group of words that are listed together.

      Example: mother father instead of mother and father

   2. (mathematics) An absence of operators in an expression.

      Using juxtaposition for multiplication saves space when writing longer expressions. ${\displaystyle a\times b\!}$ collapses to ${\displaystyle ab\!}$.

      • 2007, Lawrence Moss and Hans-Jörg Tiede, Applications of Modal Logic in Linguistics, in: P. Blackburn et al (eds), Handbook of Modal Logic, Elsevier, p. 1054

        A fundamental operation on strings is string concatenation which we will denote by juxtaposition.

2. The extra emphasis given to a comparison when the contrasted objects are close together.

   There was a poignant juxtaposition between the boys laughing in the street and the girl crying on the balcony above.

   1. (art) Two or more contrasting sounds, colours, styles etc. placed together for stylistic effect.

      The juxtaposition of the bright yellows on the dark background made the painting appear three dimensional.

   2. (rhetoric) The close placement of two ideas to imply a link that may not exist.

      Example: In 1965 the government was elected; in 1965 the economy took a dive.

Hypernyms

• position (structurally)

Related terms

Translations

References

• Juxtaposition on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

juxtaposition (third-person singular simple present juxtapositions, present participle juxtapositioning, simple past and past participle juxtapositioned)

1. To place in juxtaposition.

References

• DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ?ISBN. Music.

French

Pronunciation

Noun

juxtaposition f (plural juxtapositions)

1. juxtaposition

Further reading

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