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▸ adjective: (geography) Of, relating to, measured from, or referred to a geographic pole (the North Pole or South Pole); within the Arctic or Antarctic circles.
▸ adjective: (space sciences) Of an orbit that passes over, or near, one of these poles.
▸ adjective: (chemistry) Having a dipole; ionic.
▸ adjective: (mathematics) Of a coordinate system, specifying the location of a point in a plane by using a radius and an angle.
▸ adjective: (linguistics, of a question) Having but two possible answers, yes and no.
▸ adjective: (conceptual analysis) Of or relating to a pole (extreme) on any spectrum or field, such as an ideologically pure dogmatic position as opposed to any syncretic integration or balancing of competing principles.
▸ noun: (geometry) The line joining the points of contact of tangents drawn to meet a curve from a point called the pole of the line.
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glacial,
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freezing,
icy,
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