Polar

Polar may refer to:

• Geographical pole, either of two fixed points on the surface of a rotating body or planet, at 90 degrees from the equator, based on the axis around which a body rotates
• Polar climate, the climate common in polar regions
• Polar regions of Earth, locations within the polar circles, referred to as the Arctic and Antarctic

• Polar Air Cargo, an American airline
• Polar Airlines, a Russian airline
• Polar Beverages, an American soft drink company
• Polar Electro, a Finnish manufacturer of sports training computers
• Sisu Polar, a truck model series produced by the Finnish heavy vehicle producer Sisu Auto

• Grammatical polarity, a grammatical category of affirmative vs. negative
• Polar question, a question that can be answered yes or no

• Polar point group, a symmetry in geometry and crystallography
• Pole and polar (a point and a line), a construction in geometry
  • Polar cone
  • Polar coordinate system, uses a central point and angles
  • Polar curve (a point and a curve), a generalization of a point and a line
  • Polar set, with respect to a bilinear pairing of vector spaces

• Polar (cataclysmic variable), a strongly magnetic cataclysmic variable star system
• Polar (satellite), a satellite launched by NASA in 1996
• Chemical polarity, a concept in chemistry which describes how equally bonding electrons are shared between atoms
• POLAR III and POLAR II, a pedestrian test dummy created by Honda, used to study pedestrian injuries in road traffic accidents
• Polar curve (aviation), a diagram that depicts the gliding performance of an aircraft
• Polar fleece, an insulating synthetic wool fabric
• Polar organelle, a specialised region of the cell membrane found surrounding the flagella base(s) in some bacteria
• Polar overdominance a form of genetic mutation

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• Polarity (disambiguation)
• Polarization (disambiguation)
• Pole (disambiguation)