Bipolar vs. Dipolar — What's the Difference?

Relating to or having two poles or charges.

(Physics) A pair of separated electric charges or magnetic poles, of equal magnitude but of opposite sign or polarity.

Relating to a device capable of using two polarizations, such as a transistor that uses positive and negative charge carriers.

(Chemistry) A molecule having two such charges or poles.

Relating to or involving both of the earth's polar regions.

(Electronics) An antenna, usually fed from the center, consisting of two equal rods extending outward in a straight line.

Having two opposite or contradictory ideas or natures

(physics) Having north and south magnetic poles.

(Biology) Having two poles or opposite extremities

Possessing a dipole.

(Psychiatry) Of, relating to, or having bipolar disorder.

Having two poles, as a magnetic bar.

(Informal) A person with bipolar disorder.

Having equal and opposite electric charges or magnetic poles having opposite signs and separated by a small distance

Involving or having both extremes or poles at the same time.

Relating to both polar regions.

(physics) Relating to a bipole.

Relating to or having bipolar disorder.

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

(countable) A bipolar cell.

(uncountable) bipolar disorder

Doubly polar; having two poles; as, a bipolar cell or corpuscle.

Of or relating to manic depressive illness

Of, pertaining to, or occurring in both polar regions;

Having two poles