unipolar
[yoo-nuh-poh-ler]
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adjective
Also homopolar. Physics. having or pertaining to a single magnetic or electric pole.
Anatomy. of or relating to a nerve cell in spinal and cranial ganglia in which the incoming and outgoing processes fuse outside the cell body.
Origin of unipolar
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Contemporary Examples of unipolar
But the idea that the United States must maintain its hegemonic status in a unipolar world—on the right, that has staying power.
The “unipolar moment” that might have described America when the Berlin Wall fell down is long over.
Historical Examples of unipolar
Unipolar spots are very seldom observed without some indication of the characteristics of bipolar groups.
AstronomyDavid Todd
The bipolar spot seems to be the dominant type, and the unipolar type a variant of it.
AstronomyDavid Todd
Burger showed that all ganglion cells are unipolar, without membranes.
The next morphological category may be spoken of as unipolar symmetry.
But unipolar symmetry with diverging outgrowths leads us to the next category which may be called radial symmetry.
unipolar
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