Meaning & use
unipolar
Having or involving only one pole, center of power, or extreme, rather than two or more.
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Analysts debated whether the world had become a unipolar system after the war.
The magnet's field was described as unipolar in the experiment.
A note on using this word
Unipolar appears in political science, meaning a single dominant power, and in physics or psychology contexts.
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bipolarmultipolar
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