Polar Explained

Polar may refer to:

Geography

Geographical pole, either of the two points on Earth where its axis of rotation intersects its surface
- Polar climate, the climate common in polar regions
- Polar regions of Earth, locations within the polar circles, referred to as the Arctic and Antarctic

Polar, Wisconsin, town in Langlade County, Wisconsin, United States
- Polar (community), Wisconsin, unincorporated community in Langlade County, Wisconsin, United States

Polar Air Cargo, an American airline
Polar Airlines, a Russian airline
Polar Beverages, an American soft drink company
Polar Electro, a Finnish manufacturer of sports training computers
Sisu Polar, a truck model series produced by the Finnish heavy vehicle producer Sisu Auto

Polar point group, a symmetry in geometry and crystallography
Pole and polar (a point and a line), a construction in geometry
- Polar cone
- Polar coordinate system, uses a central point and angles
- Polar curve (a point and a curve), a generalization of a point and a line
- Polar set, with respect to a bilinear pairing of vector spaces

Polar (star), a strongly magnetic cataclysmic variable star system
Polar (satellite), a satellite launched by NASA in 1996
Chemical polarity, a concept in chemistry which describes how equally bonding electrons are shared between atoms
POLAR III and POLAR II, a pedestrian test dummy created by Honda, used to study pedestrian injuries in road traffic accidents
Polar curve (aviation), a diagram that depicts the gliding performance of an aircraft
Polar fleece, an insulating synthetic wool fabric
Polar organelle, a specialised region of the cell membrane found surrounding the flagella base(s) in some bacteria
Polar overdominance a form of genetic mutation