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tripolar

tripolar adjective: having three poles.

Adjective

tripolar (not comparable)

  1. Having three poles.
  2. Having three electrical connections.
  3. Having or involving three centers of military, economic or political power.
    • Instead, what will ultimately replace today’s dollar-centric international monetary and financial system is a tripolar system organized around the dollar, the euro, and the Chinese renminbi.2011, Barry Eichengreen, The Bear of Bretton Woods

Origin of tripolar

From tri- + polar.

Words formed from tripolar

Questions about tripolar

What does tripolar mean?
Tripolar means having three poles.
What part of speech is tripolar?
Tripolar is an adjective.

Words near tripolar in the dictionary

  1. tripody
  2. tripoidal
  3. tripoint
  4. tripointed
  5. tripoints
  6. tripolar
  7. tripolarity
  8. tripole
  9. tripoles
  10. tripoli
  11. Tripoli powder

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