Bipolar vs. Dipolar — What's the Difference?
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Difference Between Bipolar and Dipolar
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Definitions
Bipolar
Relating to or having two poles or charges.
Dipolar
(Physics) A pair of separated electric charges or magnetic poles, of equal magnitude but of opposite sign or polarity.
Bipolar
Relating to a device capable of using two polarizations, such as a transistor that uses positive and negative charge carriers.
Dipolar
(Chemistry) A molecule having two such charges or poles.
Bipolar
Relating to or involving both of the earth's polar regions.
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Dipolar
(Electronics) An antenna, usually fed from the center, consisting of two equal rods extending outward in a straight line.
Bipolar
Having two opposite or contradictory ideas or natures
The bipolar world of the postwar period.
Dipolar
(physics) Having north and south magnetic poles.
Bipolar
(Biology) Having two poles or opposite extremities
A bipolar neuron.
Dipolar
Possessing a dipole.
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Bipolar
(Psychiatry) Of, relating to, or having bipolar disorder.
Dipolar
Having two poles, as a magnetic bar.
Bipolar
(Informal) A person with bipolar disorder.
Dipolar
Having equal and opposite electric charges or magnetic poles having opposite signs and separated by a small distance
Bipolar
Involving or having both extremes or poles at the same time.
Bipolar
Relating to both polar regions.
Bipolar
(physics) Relating to a bipole.
Bipolar
Relating to or having bipolar disorder.
Bipolar
(politics) Of or relating to an international system in which two states wield most of the cultural, economic, and political influence.
Bipolar
(countable) A bipolar cell.
Bipolar
(uncountable) bipolar disorder
Bipolar
Doubly polar; having two poles; as, a bipolar cell or corpuscle.
Bipolar
Of or relating to manic depressive illness
Bipolar
Of, pertaining to, or occurring in both polar regions;
The bipolar distribution of certain species
Bipolar
Having two poles