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English to English noun
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a relation between two opposite attributes or tendencies |  | Example: he viewed it as a balanced polarity between good and evil
source: wordnet30
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having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges) | | Example: he got the polarity of the battery reversed
charges of opposite sign
source: wordnet30
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That quality or condition of a body in virtue of which it exhibits opposite, or contrasted, properties or powers, in opposite, or contrasted, parts or directions; or a condition giving rise to a contrast of properties corresponding to a contrast of positions, as, for example, attraction and repulsion in the opposite parts of a magnet, the dissimilar phenomena corresponding to the different sides of a polarized ray of light, etc. | | source: webster1913
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