dipolar
adjective
dipolar is an adjective meaning “Having north and south magnetic poles” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-I-P-O-L-A-R, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does dipolar mean?
adjective
- 1
Having north and south magnetic poles.
- 2
Possessing a dipole.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce dipolar?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-dipolar.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is dipolar?
Dipolar appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 106,501st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Dipolar in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense having two poles:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | dipolar |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does dipolar come from?
From di- + polar.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).