Meaning of POLARITY
| Pronunciation: | | pow'laritee
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- [n] a relation between two opposite attributes or tendencies; "he viewed it as a balanced polarity between good and evil"
- [n] having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges); "he got the polarity of the battery reversed"; "charges of opposite sign"
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| | Synonyms: | | mutual opposition, sign |
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| | See Also: | | oppositeness, opposition | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Po*lar"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. polarit['e].]
1. (Physics) 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.
2. (Geom.) 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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| | Definition: | | - In chemistry, this refers to the irregular distribution of electrons in a molecule; polar molecules typically dissolve in water.
- In genetics, this refers to the distinction between the 5' and 3' ends of nucleotide sequences.
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