Usually means: Separation of electric or magnetic charges.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. polarity: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. polarity: Merriam-Webster
  3. polarity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. polarity: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. polarity: Collins English Dictionary
  6. polarity: Vocabulary.com
  7. Polarity, polarity: Wordnik
  8. polarity: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. polarity: Wiktionary
  10. polarity: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. polarity: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. polarity: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. polarity: Dictionary.com
  14. polarity: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Polarity (Chemistry), Polarity (Decrepit Birth album), Polarity (The Wedding album), Polarity (chemistry), Polarity (company), Polarity (game), Polarity (international relations), Polarity (mutual inductance), Polarity (physics), Polarity (power), Polarity: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Polarity: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. polarity: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. polarity: Rhymezone
  19. Polarity: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. polarity: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. polarity: FreeDictionary.org
  22. polarity: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. polarity: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Polarity (disambiguation), polarity: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Polarity (chemistry), Polarity (disambiguation), polarity: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. polarity: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. General Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Polarity (disambiguation), polarity: Medical dictionary

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Electrochemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Polarity: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  4. polarity: PHYSICAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
  5. polarity, polarity, polarity: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. polarity: Urban Dictionary

Tech (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. polarity: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. polarity: Electronics
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  5. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  7. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  8. POLARITY: Power Engineering

(Note: See polarities as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The separation, alignment or orientation of something into two opposed poles.
noun:  Either of the two extremes of such attributes.
noun:  (chemistry) The dipole-dipole intermolecular forces between the slightly positively-charged end of one molecule to the negative end of another or the same molecule. ᵂᵖ
noun:  (embryology) The division of an embryo into an animal pole and a vegetal pole within a blastula. ᵂᵖ
noun:  (microbiology) Spatial differences in shape, structure, and function within a cell. ᵂᵖ
noun:  (electricity) A measure of the electrical potential at the ends of a circuit. ᵂᵖ
noun:  (physics) The direction of a wave's amplitude or its being in phase or antiphase.
noun:  (grammar) The grammatical category of the affirmative and the negative. ᵂᵖ
noun:  (projective geometry) A duality that is an involution, i.e. has order two. ᵂᵖ
noun:  (mathematics) An indicator of the positivity or negativity of a literal. ᵂᵖ
noun:  (politics) Any of the various ways in which power is distributed within the international system. ᵂᵖ
noun:  (gender) The concept of dualism between masculine and feminine. ᵂᵖ
noun:  (physics) Ellipsis of magnetic polarity. [(physics) the state of being a north pole or south pole; the magnetic equivalent of electric charge]
noun:  (geometry) Ellipsis of trilinear polarity. [A correspondence between the points in the plane of a triangle not lying on the sides of the triangle and lines in the plane of the triangle not passing through the vertices of the triangle.]

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