unipolar
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- Rhymes: -əʊlə(ɹ)
Adjective edit
unipolar (not comparable)
- Having a single pole.
- 2008 December 31, Michael Kinsley, “The Bush Presidency, Eight Years Later”, in Time[1], archived from the original on 4 January 2009:
- All that talk of one superpower -- us -- bestriding a "unipolar" world seems as dated as Seinfeld reruns.
- (psychology, medicine) Not both depressive and manic; not bipolar.
- 2007, Frederick K. Goodwin, Kay Redfield Jamison, Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression, Volume 1, →ISBN, page 250:
- Most studies have tended to find somewhat higher suicide rates in unipolar depression than in bipolar disorder
- (politics) Of or relating to an international system in which one state wields most of the cultural, economic, and political influence.
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having a single pole
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Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French unipolaire.
Adjective edit
unipolar m or n (feminine singular unipolară, masculine plural unipolari, feminine and neuter plural unipolare)
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Declension of unipolar
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | unipolar | unipolară | unipolari | unipolare | ||
| definite | unipolarul | unipolara | unipolarii | unipolarele | |||
| genitive/ dative |
indefinite | unipolar | unipolare | unipolari | unipolare | ||
| definite | unipolarului | unipolarei | unipolarilor | unipolarelor | |||
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unipolar m or f (masculine and feminine plural unipolares)