Look up polar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Polar may refer to:
Geography
- Geographical pole, either of the two points on Earth where its axis of rotation intersects its surface
Places
Music
Brands and enterprises
Linguistics
Mathematics
Science and technology
- Polar (star), a strongly magnetic cataclysmic variable star system
- Polar (satellite), a satellite launched by NASA in 1996
- Chemical polarity, a concept in chemistry which describes how equally bonding electrons are shared between atoms
- POLAR III and POLAR II, a pedestrian test dummy created by Honda, used to study pedestrian injuries in road traffic accidents
- Polar curve (aviation), a diagram that depicts the gliding performance of an aircraft
- Polar fleece, an insulating synthetic wool fabric
- Polar organelle, a specialised region of the cell membrane found surrounding the flagella base(s) in some bacteria
- Polar overdominance a form of genetic mutation
Other uses
See also
Topics referred to by the same term
|