Usually means: Opposite characteristics or orientations present.
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  1. polarities: Merriam-Webster
  2. polarities: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. polarities: Collins English Dictionary
  4. polarities: Vocabulary.com
  5. polarities: Wordnik
  6. polarities: Wiktionary
  7. polarities: Dictionary.com
  8. polarities: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. polarities: Legal dictionary

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  1. polarities: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. polarities: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. polarities: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (polarity)

noun:  The separation, alignment or orientation of something into two opposed poles.
noun:  Either of the two extremes of such attributes.
noun:  (chemistry) 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
noun:  (embryology) The division of an embryo into an animal pole and a vegetal pole within a blastula. ᵂᵖ
noun:  (microbiology) Spatial differences in shape, structure, and function within a cell. ᵂᵖ
noun:  (electricity) A measure of the electrical potential at the ends of a circuit. ᵂᵖ
noun:  (physics) The direction of a wave's amplitude or its being in phase or antiphase.
noun:  (grammar) The grammatical category of the affirmative and the negative. ᵂᵖ
noun:  (projective geometry) A duality that is an involution, i.e. has order two. ᵂᵖ
noun:  (mathematics) An indicator of the positivity or negativity of a literal. ᵂᵖ
noun:  (politics) Any of the various ways in which power is distributed within the international system. ᵂᵖ
noun:  (gender) The concept of dualism between masculine and feminine. ᵂᵖ
noun:  (physics) Ellipsis of magnetic polarity. [(physics) the state of being a north pole or south pole; the magnetic equivalent of electric charge]
noun:  (geometry) Ellipsis of trilinear polarity. [A correspondence between the points in the plane of a triangle not lying on the sides of the triangle and lines in the plane of the triangle not passing through the vertices of the triangle.]
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