polar: significado y definiciones

Of or relating to a pole.

Measured from or referred to a pole: polar distance; polar diameter.

Relating to, connected with, or located near the North Pole or South Pole.

Passing over a planet's north and south poles: a polar orbit.

Traveling in an orbit that passes over a planet's north and south poles.

Serving as a guide, as a polestar or a pole of the earth.

Occupying or characterized by opposite extremes: "In creative territory [they] make a strange yet ineluctable couple, more complementary, even polar, than twin-like” ( Josh Rubins).

Central or pivotal.

Chemistry Relating to or characterized by a dipole: a polar molecule.

Ionizing when dissolved or fused: polar bonds or linkages.