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Polarity   /poʊlˈɛrəti/   Listen
Polarity

noun
1.
A relation between two opposite attributes or tendencies.  Synonym: mutual opposition.
2.
Having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges).  Synonym: sign.  "Charges of opposite sign"





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"Polarity" Quotes from Famous Books



... forces, I believe, can temporarily be made to act opposite to its usual manner. I know this to be the case with gravity, for I have caused its positive and negative currents to alternate; that is, I have made it repel and then attract, and so on, at will, by changing the polarity of the ...
— Pharaoh's Broker - Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner • Ellsworth Douglass


Words linked to "Polarity" :   opposition, oppositeness, positiveness, mutual opposition, polar, negativeness, negativity, sign, positivity


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