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unipolar

English

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Etymology

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From uni- +‎ polar.

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unipolar (not comparable)

  1. 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.
  2. (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
  3. (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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Indonesian

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Etymology

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Internationalism, polar +‎ uni-.

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unipolar

  1. (medicine, politics, psychology) unipolar
    Synonym: ekakutub (Standard Malay)

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French unipolaire.

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unipolar m or n (feminine singular unipolară, masculine plural unipolari, feminine and neuter plural unipolare)

  1. unipolar

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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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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /unipoˈlaɾ/ [u.ni.poˈlaɾ]
  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Syllabification: u‧ni‧po‧lar

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unipolar m or f (masculine and feminine plural unipolares)

  1. unipolar
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