Unipolar

Origin

- + polar.

Full definition of unipolar

Adjective

1. Having a single pole.
• All that talk of one superpower -- us -- bestriding a "unipolar" world seems as dated as Seinfeld reruns.
2. (psychology, medicine) Not both depressive and manic; not bipolar.
• 2007, Frederick K. Goodwin, Kay Redfield Jamison, Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression, Volume 1, Most studies have tended to find somewhat higher suicide rates in unipolar depression than in bipolar disorder

Synonyms

• monopolar

Derived terms

• unipolar depression
• unipolar encoding
• unipolar motor
• unipolar neuron

Related terms

• bipolar
• multipolar