unipolar









unipolar


adjective

  1. Also homopolar. Physics. having or pertaining to a single magnetic or electric pole.
  2. Anatomy. of or relating to a nerve cell in spinal and cranial ganglia in which the incoming and outgoing processes fuse outside the cell body.

adjective

  1. of, concerned with, or having a single magnetic or electric pole
  2. (of a nerve cell) having a single process
  3. (of a transistor) utilizing charge carriers of one polarity only, as in a field-effect transistor
  4. (of nervous depression) occurring without accompanying bouts of mania
  5. dominated by one superpower, esp the United StatesSee bipolar

adj.1812, from uni- + polar. n.

  1. Having a single fibrous process. Used of a neuron.
  2. Situated at only one extremity of a cell.
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