Polarity

[pə(ʊ)'lærɪtɪ] or [pə'lærəti]

Definition

(noun.) having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges); 'he got the polarity of the battery reversed'; 'charges of opposite sign'.

Edited by Elise--From WordNet

Definition

(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.

(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.

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