Meaning & use

unipolar

adjective·Advanced

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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