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Polar

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Polar may refer to:

Geography

Polar may refer to:

  • Geographical pole, either of two fixed points on the surface of a rotating body or planet, at 90 degrees from the equator, based on the axis around which a body rotates
  • Polar climate, the climate common in polar regions
  • Polar regions of Earth, locations within the polar circles, referred to as the Arctic and Antarctic

Places

  • Polar, Wisconsin, town in Langlade County, Wisconsin, United States
    • Polar (community), Wisconsin, unincorporated community in Langlade County, Wisconsin, United States

People

  • Polar (musician), Norwegian electronic music producer

Arts, entertainment and media

Music

Labels and studios

Albums

  • Polar (album), second album by the High Water Marks
  • Polars (album), an album by the Dutch metal band, Textures

Other uses in arts, entertainment and media

  • Polar (webcomic), a webcomic and series of graphic novels by Víctor Santos
  • Polar (film), a 2019 Netflix film adaption of the above comic series
  • Polar Vortex, a 2020 novel by Shani Mootoo

Brands and enterprises

Linguistics

  • Grammatical polarity, a grammatical category of affirmative vs. negative
  • Polar question, a question that can be answered yes or no

Mathematics

  • Polar point group, a symmetry in geometry and crystallography
  • Pole and polar (a point and a line), a construction in geometry

Science and technology

  • Polar (cataclysmic variable), a strongly magnetic cataclysmic variable star system
  • Polar (satellite), a satellite launched by NASA in 1996
  • Chemical polarity, a concept in chemistry which describes how equally bonding electrons are shared between atoms
  • POLAR III and POLAR II, a pedestrian test dummy created by Honda, used to study pedestrian injuries in road traffic accidents
  • Polar curve (aviation), a diagram that depicts the gliding performance of an aircraft
  • Polar fleece, an insulating synthetic wool fabric
  • Polar organelle, a specialised region of the cell membrane found surrounding the flagella base(s) in some bacteria
  • Polar overdominance a form of genetic mutation

See also

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