Polar

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, 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, unincorporated community in Langlade County, Wisconsin, United States

People

• Polar (musician), Norwegian electronic music producer

Arts, entertainment and media

Music

Labels and studios

• Polar Music, a record label
• Polar Studios, 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, an American airline
• Polar Airlines, a Russian airline
• Polar Beverages, an American soft drink company
• Polar Electro, a Finnish manufacturer of sports training computers
• Sisu Polar, a truck model series produced by the Finnish heavy vehicle producer Sisu Auto

Linguistics

• Grammatical polarity, a grammatical category of affirmative vs. negative
• Polar question, a question that can be answered yes or no

Mathematics

• Polar point group, a symmetry in geometry and crystallography
• Pole and polar (a point and a line), a construction in geometry
  • Polar cone
  • Polar coordinate system, uses a central point and angles
  • Polar curve (a point and a curve), a generalization of a point and a line
  • Polar set, with respect to a bilinear pairing of vector spaces

Science and technology

• Polar (star), a strongly magnetic cataclysmic variable star system
• Polar (satellite), 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 and POLAR II, a pedestrian test dummy created by Honda, used to study pedestrian injuries in road traffic accidents
• Polar curve (aviation), a diagram that depicts the gliding performance of an aircraft
• Polar fleece, 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 a form of genetic mutation

See also

• All pages with titles containing Polar
• Festival Polar de Cognac, a French festival focused on crime fiction
• Polarity (disambiguation)
• Polarization (disambiguation)
• Pole (disambiguation)