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Polarity   /poʊlˈɛrəti/   Listen
Polarity

noun
1.
A relation between two opposite attributes or tendencies.  Synonym: mutual opposition.
2.
Having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges).  Synonym: sign.  "Charges of opposite sign"





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"Polarity" Quotes from Famous Books



... points in the system of Heracleitus are worthy of the closest study. Intensely interesting, for example, is his doctrine that strife is the condition of harmony, and indeed of existence. Schelling reproduced this idea in his well-known theory of polarity; Hegel developed it in his dialectic triad— Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis; and the electrical theories of matter and force now in vogue fall easily into line with it—not to speak of the dominant theory of evolution as involving a struggle for existence, and as applied ...
— Nature Mysticism • J. Edward Mercer
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... with the stuff he found that it was not only highly magnetic, but also possessed polarity in a marked degree; and was entirely different from the true meteorite. Here was a curiosity, indeed; a small, insignificant and unattractive stone possessed of strong magnetic polarity, a property of electricity that is as mysterious ...
— Arizona Sketches • Joseph A. Munk
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... field-concept from the central to the peripheral field-type. Natural phenomena brought about by the suctional effect of the earth's levity-field. The different conditions of matter seen in the light of the levity-gravity polarity. Heat, the fourth state of matter. Procreation of physical substance - a natural fact. The case of Tillandsia. The problem of the trace-elements. Homeopathy, an example of the effect of dematerialized matter. The meteorological circuit of water. The ...
— Man or Matter • Ernst Lehrs
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... following branches of the subject:—1st. The system of natural affinities. 2nd. The distribution of animals and plants in space. 3rd. The same in time, including all the phaenomena of representative groups, and those which Professor Forbes supposed to manifest polarity. 4th. The phaenomena of rudimentary organs. We will briefly endeavour to show its bearing ...
— Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection - A Series of Essays • Alfred Russel Wallace
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Words linked to "Polarity" :   polar, positiveness, positivity, oppositeness, negativity, negativeness, mutual opposition, sign, opposition


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