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Polar may refer to:
Geography edit
Polar may refer to:
- Geographical pole, either of two fixed points on the surface of a rotating body or planet, at 90 degrees from the equator, based on the axis around which a body rotates
- Polar climate, the climate common in polar regions
- Polar regions of Earth, locations within the polar circles, referred to as the Arctic and Antarctic
Places edit
- Polar, Wisconsin, town in Langlade County, Wisconsin, United States
- Polar (community), Wisconsin, unincorporated community in Langlade County, Wisconsin, United States
People edit
- Polar (musician), Norwegian electronic music producer
Arts, entertainment and media edit
Music edit
Labels and studios edit
- Polar Music, a record label
- Polar Studios, music studio of ABBA in Sweden
Albums edit
- Polar (album), second album by the High Water Marks
- Polars (album), an album by the Dutch metal band, Textures
Other uses in arts, entertainment and media edit
- Polar (webcomic), a webcomic and series of graphic novels by Víctor Santos
- Polar (film), a 2019 Netflix film adaption of the above comic series
Brands and enterprises edit
- Polar Air Cargo, an American airline
- Polar Airlines, a Russian airline
- Polar Beverages, an American soft drink company
- Polar Electro, a Finnish manufacturer of sports training computers
- Sisu Polar, a truck model series produced by the Finnish heavy vehicle producer Sisu Auto
Linguistics edit
- Grammatical polarity, a grammatical category of affirmative vs. negative
- Polar question, a question that can be answered yes or no
Mathematics edit
- Polar point group, a symmetry in geometry and crystallography
- Pole and polar (a point and a line), a construction in geometry
- Polar cone
- Polar coordinate system, uses a central point and angles
- Polar curve (a point and a curve), a generalization of a point and a line
- Polar set, with respect to a bilinear pairing of vector spaces
Science and technology edit
- Polar (star), a strongly magnetic cataclysmic variable star system
- Polar (satellite), a satellite launched by NASA in 1996
- Chemical polarity, a concept in chemistry which describes how equally bonding electrons are shared between atoms
- POLAR III and POLAR II, a pedestrian test dummy created by Honda, used to study pedestrian injuries in road traffic accidents
- Polar curve (aviation), a diagram that depicts the gliding performance of an aircraft
- Polar fleece, an insulating synthetic wool fabric
- Polar organelle, a specialised region of the cell membrane found surrounding the flagella base(s) in some bacteria
- Polar overdominance a form of genetic mutation
See also edit
- All pages with titles containing Polar
- Polarity (disambiguation)
- Polarization (disambiguation)
- Pole (disambiguation)
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