polarity

Plural: polarities

Noun

• The state of having two opposite tendencies, forces, or principles.
• a relation between two opposite attributes or tendencies
  • "he viewed it as a balanced polarity between good and evil"
• having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges)
  • "he got the polarity of the battery reversed"
• The separation, alignment or orientation of something into two opposed poles.
• Either of the two extremes of such attributes.
• The dipole-dipole intermolecular forces between the slightly positively-charged end of one molecule to the negative end of another or the same molecule. ᵂᵖ
• The division of an embryo into an animal pole and a vegetal pole within a blastula. ᵂᵖ
• Spatial differences in shape, structure, and function within a cell. ᵂᵖ
• A measure of the electrical potential at the ends of a circuit. ᵂᵖ
• The direction of a wave's amplitude or its being in phase or antiphase.
• The grammatical category of the affirmative and the negative. ᵂᵖ
• A duality that is an involution, i.e. has order two. ᵂᵖ
• An indicator of the positivity or negativity of a literal. ᵂᵖ
• Any of the various ways in which power is distributed within the international system. ᵂᵖ
• The concept of dualism between masculine and feminine. ᵂᵖ
• Ellipsis of magnetic polarity.
• Ellipsis of trilinear polarity.

Examples

• The ’POLARITY’ of his tile rack, all vowels or all consonants, often led to frustrating Scrabble games.

Synonyms

mutual opposition, sign