Canadian English Meaning of polarity

polarity

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Definitions and Meaning of polarity in English

Wordnet

polarity (n)

a relation between two opposite attributes or tendencies

having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges)

Webster

polarity (n.)

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.

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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polarity

a relation between two opposite attributes or tendencies, having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges)That quali

oppositeness,Opposition,conflict,inconsistency,contrariness,divergence,Antipodes,antithesis,contradictoriness,disagreement

agreement,conformity,congruity,correlation,correspondence,identity,Likeness,parallelism,relationship,resemblance

polaristic => polaristic, polarise => polarise, polariscopy => polariscopy, polariscopic => polariscopic, polariscope => Polariscope,