apolar

English

Etymology

From a- +‎ polar.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

apolar (not comparable)

1. Having no polarity
   1. (physical chemistry, physics) Having no dipole
2. (geometry) Orthogonal under the polar pairing between the symmetric algebra of a vector space and its dual.

Related terms

• apolarity

Translations

having no polarity

Chinese: Mandarin: 非极性 (FeiJiXing) Finnish: pooliton Hungarian: apoláris Italian: apolare (it) Portuguese: apolar (pt)

Anagrams

• Rapalo, laparo-

Galician

Adjective

apolar m or f (plural apolares)

1. nonpolar

   Antonym: polar

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.poˈlaʁ/ [a.poˈlah]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.poˈlaʁ/ [a.poˈlah]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /a.poˈlaɾ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /a.poˈlaʁ/ [a.poˈlaχ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.poˈlaɻ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.puˈlaɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.puˈlaɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.puˈla.ɾi/

Adjective

apolar m or f (plural apolares)

1. apolar (having no polarity)

Further reading

• “apolar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “apolar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Spanish

Etymology

From a- +‎ polar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /apoˈlaɾ/ [a.poˈlaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧po‧lar

Adjective

apolar m or f (masculine and feminine plural apolares)

1. apolar

Further reading

• “apolar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025