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mutual opposition: a relation between two opposite attributes or tendencies; "he viewed it as a balanced polarity between good and evil" having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges); "he got the polarity of the battery reversed"; "charges of opposite sign"
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the pairing of complimentary capabilities. In all organisms, physiological polarity connects the individual's sensory and motor capabilities. In vertebrates, sexual polarity connects the submission of the female with the dominance of the male. In civilization, psychological polarity connects femininity and masculinity between individuals regardless of their gender. see also: analog.
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May be applied to any property of a physical system that can take on only two values, usually opposite in some sense (eg, sign or direction). Thus, the electron and positron are said to have opposite polarity because their charges are equal in magnitude but opposite in sign. Similarly, anodes and cathodes are electrodes of opposite polarity.
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(of a character) Determination of polarity is the determination of which character state is primitive for a group, ie the character state of the ancestor of a monophyletic group.
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The tendency of a molecule to have positive and negative poles because of the unequal sharing of a pair of electrons.
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