英和和英

発音

• IPA: /pəˈlæɹɪti/
• (General American) IPA: [pəˈlɛɹɪɾi]
• 韻: -æɹɪti

名詞

polarity (countable and uncountable, plural polarities)

1. The separation, alignment or orientation of something into two opposed poles.

   The debate revealed the sharp polarity of opinion.

2. Either of the two extremes of such attributes.
3. (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.
4. (embryology) The division of an embryo into an animal pole and a vegetal pole within a blastula.
5. (microbiology) Spatial differences in shape, structure, and function within a cell.
6. (electricity) A measure of the electrical potential at the ends of a circuit.

   positive and negative polarity

   The experiment tested the polarity of the electrical current.

7. (physics) The direction of a wave's amplitude or its being in phase or antiphase.
8. (grammar) The grammatical category of the affirmative and the negative.
9. (projective geometry) A duality that is an involution, i.e. has order two.
10. (mathematics) An indicator of the positivity or negativity of a literal.
11. (politics) Any of the various ways in which power is distributed within the international system.

    political polarity

12. (gender) The concept of dualism between masculine and feminine.
13. (physics) Ellipsis of magnetic polarity.
14. (geometry) Ellipsis of trilinear polarity.

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