unipolar

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: u=ni=po=lar

CIDE DICTIONARY

unipolar, a. [Uni- + polar.].

•  Having, or acting by means of, one pole only.  [1913 Webster]
•  Having but one pole or process; -- applied to those ganglionic nerve cells which have but one radiating process; -- opposed to multipolar.  [1913 Webster]

Unipolar induction (Elec.), induction, as in a conducting circuit, by only one pole of a magnet. -- Unipolar stimulation (Physiol.), the simulation sometimes produced when one electrode of an induction apparatus is applied to a nerve; -- called also unipolar induction action. Du Bois-Reymond.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

unipolar, adj.
1 (esp. of an electric or magnetic apparatus) showing only one kind of polarity.
2 Biol. (of a nerve cell etc.) having only one pole.

Derivative

unipolarity n.