dipolar

1. 1.

   having equal and opposite electric charges or magnetic poles having opposite signs and separated by a small distance

Questions about dipolar

What does dipolar mean?

dipolar means "having equal and opposite electric charges or magnetic poles having opposite signs and separated by a small distance".

How many syllables are in dipolar?

dipolar has 3 syllables and divides as di-po-lar under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is dipolar a common word?

dipolar is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.