Word Meanings - POLARITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

• Magnetotherapy
  The treatment of disease by the application of magnets to the surface of the body.
• Sidesaddle
  A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted.
• Corresponding
  of Correspond
• LIGHTHORSEMAN
  A West Indian fish of the genus Ephippus, remarkable for its high dorsal fin and brilliant colors.
• Differently
  In a different manner; variously.
• Lighting
  of Light
• Light-handed
  Not having a full complement of men; as, a vessel light-handed.
• Magnetite
  An oxide of iron (Fe3O4) occurring in isometric crystals, also massive, of a black color and metallic luster. It is readily attracted by a magnet and sometimes possesses polarity, being then called loadstone. It is an important iron ore. Called al
• Opposite
  Placed over against; standing or situated over against or in front; facing; -- often with to; as, a house opposite to the Exchange.
• Sidesmen
  of Sidesman
• Correspond
  To be like something else in the dimensions and arrangement of its parts; -- followed by with or to; as, concurring figures correspond with each other throughout.
• LIGHTLEGGED
  Nimble; swift of foot. Sir P. Sidney.
• Dissimilar
  Not similar; unlike; heterogeneous; as, the tempers of men are as dissimilar as their features.
• Lightable
  Such as can be lighted.
• Light-headed
  Disordered in the head; dizzy; delirious.
• Light-ship
  A vessel carrying at the masthead a brilliant light, and moored off a shoal or place of dangerous navigation as a guide for mariners.
• Magnetizable
  Capable of magnetized.
• Oppositely
  In a situation to face each other; in an opposite manner or direction; adversely.
• Attraction
  An invisible power in a body by which it draws anything to itself; the power in nature acting mutually between bodies or ultimate particles, tending to draw them together, or to produce their cohesion or combination, and conversely resisting separ

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