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Polar may refer to:

Geography

Polar may refer to:

  • Geographical pole, either of two fixed points on the surface of a rotating body or planet, at 90 degrees from the equator, based on the axis around which a body rotates
  • Polar climate, the climate common in polar regions
  • Polar regions of Earth, locations within the polar circles, referred to as the Arctic and Antarctic

Places

People

Arts, entertainment and media

Music

Labels and studios

Albums

Other uses in arts, entertainment and media

  • Polar (webcomic), a webcomic and series of graphic novels by Víctor Santos
  • Polar (film), a 2019 Netflix film adaption of the above comic series

Brands and enterprises

Linguistics

Mathematics

Science and technology

  • Polar (star), a strongly magnetic cataclysmic variable star system
  • Polar (satellite), a satellite launched by NASA in 1996
  • Chemical polarity, a concept in chemistry which describes how equally bonding electrons are shared between atoms
  • POLAR III and POLAR II, a pedestrian test dummy created by Honda, used to study pedestrian injuries in road traffic accidents
  • Polar curve (aviation), a diagram that depicts the gliding performance of an aircraft
  • Polar fleece, an insulating synthetic wool fabric
  • Polar organelle, a specialised region of the cell membrane found surrounding the flagella base(s) in some bacteria
  • Polar overdominance a form of genetic mutation

See also