unipolar

English

Etymology

uni- +‎ polar.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊlə(ɹ)

Adjective

unipolar (not comparable)

1. Having a single pole.
   • 2008 December 31, Michael Kinsley, “The Bush Presidency, Eight Years Later”, in Time‎^[1], archived from the original on 4 January 2009:

     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

3. (politics) Of or relating to an international system in which one state wields most of the cultural, economic, and political influence.

Synonyms

• monopolar

Derived terms

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

 

Related terms

• bipolar
• multipolar

Translations

having a single pole

• Armenian: միաբևեռ (hy) (miabeweṙ)
• Finnish: yksinapainen (fi)
• French: unipolaire (fr)
• Greek: μονοπολικός m (monopolikós)
• Irish: aonpholach
• Italian: (physics) omopolare (it), (physics) monopolare, unipolare (it)
• Spanish: unipolar (es)

Anagrams

• uniporal

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French unipolaire.

Adjective

unipolar m or n (feminine singular unipolară, masculine plural unipolari, feminine and neuter plural unipolare)

1. unipolar

Declension

Declension of unipolar

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	unipolar		unipolară	unipolari	unipolare
	definite	unipolarul		unipolara	unipolarii	unipolarele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	unipolar		unipolare	unipolari	unipolare
	definite	unipolarului		unipolarei	unipolarilor	unipolarelor

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /unipoˈlaɾ/ [u.ni.poˈlaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: u‧ni‧po‧lar

Adjective

unipolar m or f (masculine and feminine plural unipolares)

1. unipolar