unipolar

unipolar

English

Etymology

uni- +‎ polar.

Adjective

unipolar (not comparable)

1. Having a single pole.
   • 2008 December 31, Michael Kinsley, “The Bush Presidency, Eight Years Later”, in Time‎:

     All that talk of one superpower -- us -- bestriding a "unipolar" world seems as dated as Seinfeld reruns.

2. (psychology, medicine) Not both depressive and manic; not bipolar.
   • 2007, Frederick K. Goodwin, Kay Redfield Jamison, Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression, Volume 1, →ISBN, page 250:

     Most studies have tended to find somewhat higher suicide rates in unipolar depression than in bipolar disorder

Synonyms

• monopolar

Derived terms

• unipolar depression
• unipolar encoding
• unipolar motor
• unipolar neuron

 

Related terms

• bipolar
• multipolar

Translations

having a single pole

Finnish: yksinapainen French: unipolaire (fr) Greek: μονοπολικός m (monopolikós)

Irish: aonpholach Italian: (physics) omopolare (it), (physics) monopolare, unipolare (it) Spanish: unipolar (es)

Anagrams

• uniporal

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /unipoˈlaɾ/

Adjective

unipolar (plural unipolares)

1. unipolar