polar

  1. Adjective.  of, relating to, measured from, or referred to a geographic pole (the North Pole or South Pole).
  2. Adjective.  of an orbit that passes over, or near, one of these poles.
  3. Adjective.  (chemistry) having a dipole; ionic.
  4. Adjective.  (mathematics) of a coordinate system, specifying the location of a point in a plane by using a radius and an angle.
  5. Adjective.  (linguistics, of a question) Having but two possible answers, ''yes'' and ''no''.

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