Crossword clues for unipolar
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unipolar \U`ni*po"lar\, a. [Uni- + polar.]
(Physics) Having, or acting by means of, one pole only.
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(Anat.) Having but one pole or process; -- applied to those ganglionic nerve cells which have but one radiating process; -- opposed to multipolar.
Unipolar induction (Elec.), induction, as in a conducting circuit, by only one pole of a magnet.
Unipolar stimulation (Physiol.), the simulation sometimes produced when one electrode of an induction apparatus is applied to a nerve; -- called also unipolar induction action.
--Du Bois-Reymond.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Having a single pole.
WordNet
adj. having a single pole [ant: bipolar]
Wikipedia
Unipolar may refer to:
- Unipolar depression or unipolar disorder: a state of intense sadness, melancholia or despair that has advanced to the point of being disruptive to an individual's social functioning and/or activities of daily living
- Unipolar encoding, a line code
- Unipolar generator, a DC electrical generator in which the magnetic field has the same polarity at every point, so that the armature passes through the magnetic field lines of force continually in the same direction
- Unipolar induction, also known as homopolar generator
- Unipolar motor, a type of small DC electric motor commonly found in small, portable cassette players
- Unipolar neuron, a neuron with a single neurite, round body and with different segments that serve as superficial receptors or terminals
- Unipolar transistor, alternate name for a field-effect transistor, which differs from a bipolar transistor in that only one type of charge carrier is involved in its operation
- Unipolarity, one form of polarity in international relations
Usage examples of "unipolar".
This accounts for the fact that the unipolar concept of gravity had eventually to be supplemented by some kind of bipolar concept.
Soviet Union and the arrival of a unipolar world, have taken on a note of historical distinction.
They went to the trouble of making those bar electromagnets to act on our unipolar field.
The bar magnets the enemy were lowering were taut on their cables now, straining at the powerful unipolar field of the Sunbeam.
I regard militant Islam as a catalyst that will hasten the transformation of the global power structure from unipolar to multipolar.
None of the clinical literature the doctor had read for his psych rotation suggested any relation between unipolar episodes and withdrawal from cannabinoids.
Authorities term this condition clinical depression or involutional depression or unipolar dysphoria.
I believe that Nozawa symbolizes the ascendancy of the cultural sphere over the economic sphere and the inevitable decay of the unipolar ultraliberal world view.