unipolar en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Italic *oinos Old Latin oinos Latin ūnus Latin ūni-der. English uni- Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-der. Proto-Indo-European *kʷól-os Proto-Hellenic *pólos Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos)der. Latin polus Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin -āris Late Latin polārislbor. English polar English unipolar From uni- + polar.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Having a single pole.
All that talk of one superpower -- us -- bestriding a "unipolar" world seems as dated as Seinfeld reruns.
2031 August 12, Michael Kinsley, “The Bush Presidency, Eight Years Later”, in Time, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2009:
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(not-comparable) Not both depressive and manic; not bipolar.
Most studies have tended to find somewhat higher suicide rates in unipolar depression than in bipolar disorder
2007, Frederick K. Goodwin, Kay Redfield Jamison, Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression, Volume 1, →ISBN, page 250:
- (not-comparable) Of or relating to an international system in which one state wields most of the cultural, economic, and political influence.
Deriveds
unipolar depression · unipolar neuron · unipolar motor · unipolar encoding · pseudounipolar · unipolarity · unipolarly
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Translations (15)
ga aonpholach (having a single pole) · nl unipolair (having a single pole) · hy միաբևեռ (having a single pole) · ms ekakutub (having a single pole) · nl eenpolig (having a single pole) · it unipolare (having a single pole) · pl unipolarny (having a single pole) · fi yksinapainen (having a single pole) · id unipolar (having a single pole) · fr unipolaire (having a single pole) · es unipolar (having a single pole) · pl jednobiegunowy (having a single pole) · el μονοπολικός (having a single pole) · it omopolare (having a single pole) · it monopolare (having a single pole)