English to English
noun
- a relation between two opposite attributes or tendencies
He viewed it as a balanced polarity between good and evil.
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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.
source: WordNet 3.0
- That quality or condition of a body in virtue of which it exhibits opposite, or contrasted, properties or powers, in opposite, or contrasted, parts or directions; or a condition giving rise to a contrast of properties corresponding to a contrast of positions, as, for example, attraction and repulsion in the opposite parts of a magnet, the dissimilar phenomena corresponding to the different sides of a polarized ray of light, etc.
source: Webster 1913
