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polarity is pronounced in four syllables
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video examples of polarity pronunciation
An example use of polarity in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… come back in a reversed polarity reduce …”
meanings of polarity
noun:
A measure of the electrical potential at the ends of a circuit. ^Wp.
Spatial differences in shape, structure, and function within a cell. ^Wp.
Ellipsis of trilinear polarity.
The separation, alignment or orientation of something into two opposed poles.
An indicator of the positivity or negativity of a literal. ^Wp.
The division of an embryo into an animal pole and a vegetal pole within a blastula. ^Wp.
The concept of dualism between masculine and feminine. ^Wp.
Any of the various ways in which power is distributed within the international system. ^Wp.
Ellipsis of magnetic polarity.
The direction of a wave's amplitude or its being in phase or antiphase.
The grammatical category of the affirmative and the negative. ^Wp.
The dipole-dipole intermolecular forces between the slightly positively-charged end of one molecule to the negative end of another or the same molecule. ^Wp.
A duality that is an involution, i.e. has order two. ^Wp.
Either of the two extremes of such attributes.
polarity frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR
the word polarity occurs in english on average 1.2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
topics polarity can be related to
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