polar
UK/ˈpəʊ.lə//ˈpoʊlɚ/
polar adjective: of, relating to, measured from, or referred to a geographic pole (the North Pole or South Pole); within the Arctic or Antarctic circles.
Adjective
polar (not comparable)
- Of, relating to, measured from, or referred to a geographic pole (the North Pole or South Pole); within the Arctic or Antarctic circles.
- After all, to go into outer space is not so much worse, if at all, than a polar expedition.1900 December – 1901 August, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, The First Men in the Moon, London: George Newnes, […], published 1901, →OCLC
- Of an orbit that passes over, or near, one of these poles.
- Having a dipole; ionic.
- Of a coordinate system, specifying the location of a point in a plane by using a radius and an angle.
- Having but two possible answers, yes and no.
- Of or relating to a pole (extreme) on any spectrum or field, such as an ideologically pure dogmatic position as opposed to any syncretic integration or balancing of competing principles.
- polar viewpoints
Noun
polar (plural polars)
polar meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Malayalam
polar in Hindi
- relating to a geographic pole
- ध्रुवीय dhruvīya
polar in Tamil
- துருவ, முனைவு, முனைவுக்குரிய, இசை, முனைவுக்கோடு, முனைவுள்ள
polar in Bengali
- polar; circumpolar
- ধ্রুব dhrubô
polar in Malayalam
- കാന്തികധ്രുവങ്ങളുള്ള, ധ്രുവങ്ങളെ സംബന്ധിച്ച, അക്ഷത്തെ സംബന്ധിച്ച
More languagesFewer languages
- polar in Kannada
- ಕೊನೆಯ, ಧ್ರುವಪ್ರದೇಶದ, ಧ್ರುವಸಂಬಂಧಿ, ಧ್ರುವೀಯ
- polar in Gujarati
- ધ્રુવીય dhruvīya
- polar in Tagalog
- taluktukin
- polar in Arabic
- قُطْبِيّ quṭbiyy
- polar in Persian
- قطبی qotbi
Examples of polar in a sentence
- In the polar regions one finds dark cold waters with few places to breath.
- What do you do when you come across two orphaned polar bear cubs?
- The southern polar cap of Mars consists of both carbon dioxide and water ice.
Forms of polar
| plural | polars |
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Origin of polar
Learned borrowing from Late Latin polāris. By surface analysis, pole + -ar.
Words formed from polar
- ambipolar
- antipolar
- autopolar
- axipolar
- bipolar
- circumpolar
- contrapolar
- copolar
- decapolar
- dipolar
- electropolar
- epipolar
- equipolar
- extrapolar
- frontopolar
- grolar
- heteropolar
- hexadecapolar
- hexapolar
- homopolar
- interpolar
- intrapolar
- isopolar
- micropolar
- monopolar
- multipolar
- nonpolar
- non-polar
- octapolar
- octopolar
- omnipolar
- peripolar
- pizzly
- polar antonym
- polar area diagram
- polar axis
- polar bar chart
- polar bear
- polar bear dip
- polar bear plunge
- polar bear swim
- polar body
- polar cap
- polar circle
- polar cod
- polar cone
- polar coordinates
- polar covalent bond
- polar desert
- polar dog
- polar equation
- polar fox
- polar ice
- polarisation
- polariscope
- polarise
- polarity
- polarization
- polarize
- polar lights
Phrases with polar
- polar axes
- polar caps
- polar cods
- polar dogs
- polar star
- polar wolf
- polar bears
- polar cones
- polar foxes
- Polar Inuit
- polar night
- polar stars
37 more phrasesFewer phrases
- polar bodies
- polar fleece
- polar nights
- polar vortex
- polar wander
- polar willow
- polar circles
- polar deserts
- polar fleeces
- polar willows
- polar antonyms
- polar bearlike
- polar opposite
- polar question
- polar vortexes
- polar vortices
- polar bear dips
- polar bear-like
- polar equations
- polar opposites
- polar questions
- polar bar charts
- polar bear swims
- polar coordinate
- polar T3 syndrome
- South Polar Ocean
- polar bear hunting
- polar bear plunges
- polar area diagrams
- polar covalent bonds
- space polar coordinate
- polar mesospheric cloud
- polar moment of inertia
- space polar coordinates
- polar moments of inertia
- polar stratospheric cloud
- polar stratospheric clouds
Words that rhyme with polar
34 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- circumpolar
- dipolar
- high roller
- homopolar
- lunisolar
- molar
- multipolar
- poler
- subsolar
- ambipolar
- antisolar
- arteriolar
- bolar
- bronchioalveolar
- bronchiolar
- comptroller
- condoler
- consoler
- droller
- enroller
- equimolar
- extoller
- grolar
- nonsolar
- osmolar
- parietoalveolar
- patroller
- petiolar
- premolar
- pseudobipolar
- reroller
- subpolar
- transpolar
- vacuolar
Questions about polar
- What does polar mean?
- Polar means of, relating to, measured from, or referred to a geographic pole (the North Pole or South Pole); within the Arctic or Antarctic circles.
- What is polar in Hindi?
- Polar in Hindi is ध्रुवीय (dhruvīya). See Polar meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is polar?
- Polar can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce polar?
- Polar is pronounced /ˈpəʊ.lə/ (UK).
Words near polar in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: polar (page history and authors); polar (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ধ্রুব (Bengali) (page history and authors); polar (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); polar (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ધ્રુવીય (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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