bipolar

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Adjective

bipolar

1. Involving or having both extremes or poles at the same time.
   • 1997, David A. Lake, Patrick M. Morgan, Regional Orders: Building Security in a New World,

     Pakistan greatly resents this, but its efforts to adjust the complex have involved trying to make it more bipolar (via nuclear weapons), and not to move to another security order.

2. Relating to both polar regions
3. (physics) Relating to a bipole
4. Relating to or having bipolar disorder.
   • 2005, Robert H. Coombs (editor), Family Therapy Review: Preparing for Comprehensive and Licensing Examinations,

     Since many childhood depressions become more bipolar in adult life, and because Jay's father was bipolar, I added Depakote to "protect" him against this bipolar possibility.

   • 2006, Jon P. Bloch, Jeffrey A. Naser, The everything health guide to adult bipolar disorder

     If a bipolar person you work with is receiving successful treatment, you might not even know that she is bipolar.

5. (politics) Of or relating to an international system in which two states wield most of the cultural, economic, and political influence.

Related terms

• bipolarity
• multipolar
• unipolar

Translations

• French: bipolaire
• German: bipolar,
• Italian: bipolare
• Portuguese: bipolar
• Russian: двухпо́люсный
• Spanish: bipolar

Translations

• French: bipolaire, maniaco-dépressif
• German: bipolar
• Italian: bipolare
• Portuguese: bipolar
• Russian: биполя́рный

Noun

bipolar (plural bipolars)

1. A bipolar cell.
2. Short for bipolar disorder and bipolarity.

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