Polar (disambiguation)

Polar (disambiguation)

Polar may refer to:

As a noun:
*Cervecería Polar, C.A., Venezuelan brewery and beer
*Polar (artist), Norwegian electronic music artist
*Polar (satellite), satellite launched by NASA in 1996.
*Polar (album), second album by The High Water Marks
*Polar (cataclysmic variable), strongly magnetic cataclysmic variable star system
*POLAR II, pedestrian test dummy created by Honda, used to study how pedestrians injuries in road traffic accidents
*Polar, Wisconsin, town in Langlade County, Wisconsin, United States
*Polar Beverages, a beverage producer and distributor
*Polar Electro, Finnish heart rate monitor manufacturer
*Polar line, a construction in geometry

As an adjective:
*Pertaining to the geographical pole, either of two fixed points on the surface of a spinning body or plant, at 90 degrees from the equator, based on the axis around which a body spins
*Pertaining to the polar region, region within the polar circles, referred to as the Arctic and Antarctic
*Pertaining to chemical polarity, concept in chemistry which describes how equally bonding electrons are shared between atoms
*Pertaining to a polar coordinate system

See also
* Polarity (disambiguation)
* Polarization (disambiguation)


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