polarity

1 a relation between two opposite attributes or tendencies; "he viewed it as a balanced polarity between good and evil" [syn: mutual opposition]

2 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" [syn: sign]

English

Noun

1. the separation, alignment or orientation of something into two opposed poles
2. either of the two extremes of such attributes

Polarity may refer to:

• Chemical polarity, a concept in chemistry which describes how equally bonding electrons are shared between atoms
• Polarity (physics), a physical alignment of atoms
• Grammatical polarity, the distinction of affirmative and negative
• Polarity item, the sensitiveness of some expression to negative or affirmative contexts (linguistics)
• Polarity in international relations, a description of the distribution of power within the international system
• Polarity therapy, a form of alternative medicine developed by Randolph Stone
• Orthogonal polarity, a symmetric bilinear form in algebraic geometry
• Polarity (game), a board game
• Polarity (album), the second album of The Wedding

See also:

• Polarization (disambiguation)

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