unipolar

From uni- +‎ polar.

• Rhymes: -əʊlə(ɹ)

unipolar (not comparable)

1. Having a single pole.
   • 2008 December 31, Michael Kinsley, “The Bush Presidency, Eight Years Later”, in Time‎^[1], archived from the original on 4 January 2009:

     All that talk of one superpower -- us -- bestriding a "unipolar" world seems as dated as Seinfeld reruns.

2. (psychology, medicine) Not both depressive and manic; not bipolar.
   • 2007, Frederick K. Goodwin, Kay Redfield Jamison, Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression, Volume 1, →ISBN, page 250:

     Most studies have tended to find somewhat higher suicide rates in unipolar depression than in bipolar disorder

3. (politics) Of or relating to an international system in which one state wields most of the cultural, economic, and political influence.

• monopolar

• bipolar
• multipolar

• uniporal

Internationalism, polar +‎ uni-.

unipolar

1. (medicine, politics, psychology) unipolar

   Synonym: ekakutub (Standard Malay)

Borrowed from French unipolaire.

unipolar m or n (feminine singular unipolară, masculine plural unipolari, feminine and neuter plural unipolare)

1. unipolar

• IPA^(key): /unipoˈlaɾ/ [u.ni.poˈlaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: u‧ni‧po‧lar

unipolar m or f (masculine and feminine plural unipolares)

1. unipolar