POLAR

'Polar' may refer to:

★ Polar Electro, a Finnish manufacturer of heart rate monitors

★ Polar Air Cargo, a logistics company

★ Polar (artist), a Norwegian electronic music artist

★ Empresas Polar, a brewery in Venezuela

★ Polar Beverages, an independent soft drink bottling company based in Worcester, Massachusetts

★ Polar Race, the first organised team Polar race to the Magnetic North Pole

★ Polar Challenge, a team Polar race to the Magnetic North Pole

★ Polar (satellite), a satellite launched by NASA in 1996.

★ The Polar Express, a 1985 children's book adapted as a feature film in 2004

★ The Polar Express (film), a 2004 film based upon the children's book of the same name

★ Polar (album), the second album by The High Water Marks

★ Polar Studios, once one of the most famous recording studios in Scandinavia

★ Polar Medal, a medal awarded by the Sovereign of the United Kingdom for exploration and scientific endeavour at the North or South Pole

★ Polar Music, a Swedish record company founded in 1963

★ Polar Music Prize, an international music prize founded 1989 awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music

★ Order of the Polar Star (Swedish Nordstjärneorden), a Swedish Royal order of chivalry

★ Polar Star (novel), a 1989 crime novel by Martin Cruz Smith, set in the Soviet Union in the late 1980s

★ POLAR II, a pedestrian test dummy created by Honda, used to study how pedestrians injuries in road traffic accidents

★ Polar Wrocław, a Polish football club based in Wrocław, Poland

★ Polarity in international relations, a description of the distribution of power within the international system

Contents

Geography

Science and mathematics

Geography

★ Geographical pole, either of two fixed points on the surface of a spinning body or planet, at 90 degrees from the equator, based on the axis around which a body spins

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★ Polar circle, a circle of latitude where the sun is above and below the horizon for 24 continuous hours at least once per year

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★ Polar climate, the climate of the polar regions, characterized by a lack of warm summers

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★ Polar region, the region within the polar circles, referred to as the Arctic and Antarctic

★ Polar, Wisconsin, a town in Langlade County, Wisconsin, United States

Science and mathematics

★ Chemical polarity, a concept in chemistry which describes how equally bonding electrons are shared between atoms

★ Intermediate polar, a type of cataclysmic variable binary star system

★ Polar (cataclysmic variable), a strongly magnetic cataclysmic variable star system

★ Polar body, a cell structure found inside an ovum, produced during oogenesis

★ Polar coordinate system, a coordinate system in which points are given by an angle and a distance from the pole, or central point equivalent to the origin in the Cartesian coordinate system

★ Polar curve (aviation), a graph of the rate of sink versus the horizontal speed of an aircraft

★ Polar membrane, either 1) a lipid bilayer membrane displaying polarity or 2) a specialized region of the bacterial cell membrane associated with the flagella (usually located at the cell poles)

★ Polar set, in functional analysis, a set whose compact subsets have h-capacity 0 for all h > 0