Polarity

Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) 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.

Compare polarity with other words:

polarily vs. polarity

gravity vs. polarity

polarity vs. polary

duality vs. polarity

contrariety vs. polarity

polar vs. polarity

apolar vs. polarity

molecule vs. polarity

extreme vs. polarity

orientation vs. polarity

alignment vs. polarity

polarity vs. separation

polarity vs. polarization

polarity vs. pole

polarity vs. sense

dichotomy vs. polarity