adjective
- Also homopolar. Physics. having or pertaining to a single magnetic or electric pole.
- 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
- of, concerned with, or having a single magnetic or electric pole
- (of a nerve cell) having a single process
- (of a transistor) utilizing charge carriers of one polarity only, as in a field-effect transistor
- (of nervous depression) occurring without accompanying bouts of mania
- dominated by one superpower, esp the United StatesSee bipolar
adj.1812, from uni- + polar. n.
- Having a single fibrous process. Used of a neuron.
- Situated at only one extremity of a cell.