polarity

1. n. That quality or condition of a body in virtue of which it exhibits opposite, or contrasted, properties or powers, in opposite, or contrasted, parts or directions; or a condition giving rise to a contrast of properties corresponding to a contrast of positions, as, for example, attraction and repulsion in the opposite parts of a magnet, the dissimilar phenomena corresponding to the different sides of a polarized ray of light, etc. Source: opted

2. n. A property of the conic sections by virtue of which a given point determines a corresponding right line and a given right line determines a corresponding point. See Polar, n. Source: opted

3. n. a relation between two opposite attributes or tendencies Source: wordnet

4. n. having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges) Source: wordnet

5. 1. (Physics) That quality or condition of a body in virtue of which it exhibits opposite, or contrasted, properties or powers, in opposite, or contrasted, parts or directions; or a condition giving rise to a contrast of properties corresponding to a contrast of positions, as, for example, attraction and repulsion in the opposite parts of a magnet, the dissimilar phenomena corresponding to the different sides of a polarized ray of light, etc. 2. (Geom.) A property of the conic sections by virtue of which a given point determines a corresponding right line and a given right line determines a corresponding point. See Polar, n. Source: webster

6. That quality or condition of a body in virtue of which itexhibits opposite, or contrasted, properties or powers, in opposite,or contrasted, parts or directions; or a condition giving rise to acontrast of properties corresponding to a contrast of positions, as,for example, attraction and repulsion in the opposite parts of amagnet, the dissimilar phenomena corresponding to the different sidesof a polarized ray of light, etc. Source: adambom

7. n:100 n. having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges) Source: ecdict

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