Polar may refer to:

Geography

Polar may refer to: * Geographical pole, either of two fixed points on the surface of a rotating body or planet, at 90 degrees from the equator, based on the axis around which a body rotates * Polar climate, the climate common in polar regions *

Polar regions of Earth The polar regions, also called the frigid zones or polar zones, of Earth are the regions of the planet that surround its geographical poles (the North and South Poles), lying within the polar circles. These high latitudes are dominated by float ...

, locations within the polar circles, referred to as the Arctic and Antarctic

Places

* Polar, Wisconsin, town in Langlade County, Wisconsin, United States **

Polar (community), Wisconsin Polar is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated community located in the town of Polar, Wisconsin, Polar, Langlade County, Wisconsin, Langlade County, Wisconsin, United States. Polar is located on Wisconsin Highway 64 east-northeast of Antigo, Wi ...

, unincorporated community in Langlade County, Wisconsin, United States

People

Polar (musician) Kjetil Dale Sagstad, better known by his stage name Polar or K, is a Norwegian electronic music artist. He is originally from Meland in Norway, and grew up with his former musical partner Teebee. Together he started Subtitles Recordings, which ...

, Norwegian electronic music producer

Arts, entertainment and media

Music

Labels and studios

Polar Music Polar Music is a Swedish record company founded in 1963 by Stig Anderson and his friend Bengt Bernhag. Background The first act that Polar Music signed was the Hootenanny Singers featuring Björn Ulvaeus. Polar eventually gained prosperity pr ...

, a record label *

Polar Studios Polar Studios was a recording studio in Stockholm, Sweden, which operated from 1978 through 2004. The studio was formed by ABBA musicians Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson and the band's manager Stig Anderson, owner of the Polar Music recording ...

, music studio of ABBA in Sweden

Albums

* ''Polar'' (album), second album by the High Water Marks * ''Polars'' (album), an album by the Dutch metal band, Textures

Other uses in arts, entertainment and media

* ''Polar'' (webcomic), a webcomic and series of graphic novels by Víctor Santos * ''Polar'' (film), a 2019 Netflix film adaption of the above comic series

Brands and enterprises

Polar Air Cargo Polar Air Cargo Worldwide Inc., a subsidiary of Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, is a cargo airline based in Purchase, New York, United States. It operates scheduled all-cargo services to North America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Its main ...

, an American airline *

Polar Airlines Polar Airlines (russian: Полярные авиалинии, ''Poljarnýe avialinii'') is an airline based in Yakutsk, Sakha Republic, Russia. It operates scheduled and charter passenger and cargo services. In 2020, it became part of Russia's ...

, a Russian airline *

Polar Beverages Polar Beverages is a soft drink company based in Worcester, Massachusetts. It is a manufacturer and distributor of sparkling fruit beverages, seltzer, ginger ale, drink mixers, and spring water to customers in the United States. It is the large ...

, an American soft drink company *

Polar Electro Polar Electro Oy (globally known as Polar) is a manufacturer of sports training computers, particularly known for developing the world's first wireless heart rate monitor. The company is based in Kempele, Finland and was founded in 1977. Polar h ...

, a Finnish manufacturer of sports training computers *

Sisu Polar Sisu Polar is a truck model series produced by the Finnish heavy vehicle producer Sisu Auto. It came into the market in 2011 and the main applications are earthmovers, logging trucks, road maintenance vehicles, mobile cranes and heavy machiner ...

, a truck model series produced by the Finnish heavy vehicle producer Sisu Auto

Linguistics

Grammatical polarity In linguistics and grammar, affirmation ( abbreviated ) and negation () are ways in which grammar encodes positive and negative polarity into verb phrases, clauses, or other utterances. An affirmative (positive) form is used to express the validi ...

, a grammatical category of affirmative vs. negative *

Polar question Polar may refer to: Geography Polar may refer to: * Geographical pole, either of two fixed points on the surface of a rotating body or planet, at 90 degrees from the equator, based on the axis around which a body rotates *Polar climate, the cli ...

, a question that can be answered ''yes'' or ''no''

Mathematics

Polar point group In geometry, a polar point group is a point group in which there is more than one point that every symmetry operation leaves unmoved. The unmoved points will constitute a line, a plane, or all of space. While the simplest point group, C1, leaves ...

, a symmetry in geometry and crystallography *

Pole and polar In geometry, a pole and polar are respectively a point and a line that have a unique reciprocal relationship with respect to a given conic section. Polar reciprocation in a given circle is the transformation of each point in the plane into it ...

(a point and a line), a construction in geometry **

Polar cone Dual cone and polar cone are closely related concepts in convex analysis, a branch of mathematics. Dual cone In a vector space The dual cone ''C'' of a subset ''C'' in a linear space ''X'' over the reals, e.g. Euclidean space R''n'', w ...

Polar coordinate system In mathematics, the polar coordinate system is a two-dimensional coordinate system in which each point on a plane is determined by a distance from a reference point and an angle from a reference direction. The reference point (analogous to th ...

, uses a central point and angles **

Polar curve In algebraic geometry, the first polar, or simply polar of an algebraic plane curve ''C'' of degree ''n'' with respect to a point ''Q'' is an algebraic curve of degree ''n''−1 which contains every point of ''C'' whose tangent line passes throu ...

(a point and a curve), a generalization of a point and a line **

Polar set In functional and convex analysis, and related disciplines of mathematics, the polar set A^ is a special convex set associated to any subset A of a vector space X lying in the dual space X^. The bipolar of a subset is the polar of A^, but lies ...

, with respect to a bilinear pairing of vector spaces

Science and technology

Polar (cataclysmic variable) In astronomy, a polar is a highly magnetic type of cataclysmic variable (CV) binary star system, originally known as an AM Herculis star after the prototype member AM Herculis. Like other CVs, polars contain two stars: an accreting white dwarf ...

, a strongly magnetic cataclysmic variable star system *

Polar (satellite) The Global Geospace Science (GGS) ''Polar'' satellite was a NASA science spacecraft designed to study the polar magnetosphere and aurorae. It was launched into orbit in February 1996, and continued operations until the program was terminated in ...

, a satellite launched by NASA in 1996 * Chemical polarity, a concept in chemistry which describes how equally bonding electrons are shared between atoms *

POLAR III POLAR III is a pedestrian test dummy created by Honda. The dummy is used to study how pedestrians are injured or killed when hit by automobiles. POLAR III has instruments to measure the level of injury throughout the body. About 5,000 pedestrian ...

and POLAR II, a pedestrian test dummy created by Honda, used to study pedestrian injuries in road traffic accidents *

Polar curve (aviation) The drag curve or drag polar is the relationship between the drag on an aircraft and other variables, such as lift, the coefficient of lift, angle-of-attack or speed. It may be described by an equation or displayed as a graph (sometimes called a " ...

, a diagram that depicts the gliding performance of an aircraft *

Polar fleece Polar fleece is a soft napped insulating fabric made from polyester. Uses Polar fleece is used in jackets, hats, sweaters, sweatpants, cloth diapers (nappies), gym clothes, hoodies, pajamas, blankets, and high-performance outdoor clothing. ...

, an insulating synthetic wool fabric * Polar organelle, a specialised region of the cell membrane found surrounding the flagella base(s) in some bacteria *

Polar overdominance Polar overdominance is a unique form of inheritance originally described in livestock, with relevant examples in humans and mice being discovered shortly after. The term polar is used to describe this type of overdominance because the phenotype of ...

a form of genetic mutation