polar

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Even so, the system rapidly accumulates matter within an accretion disk, placing it in a category called "intermediate polars."

From Science Daily • Jan. 8, 2026

“Right now I’d say all three of them look more like brown bears than polars, but there’s still no telling which they will resemble when they grow up,” zoo director Mann said.

From Washington Post • Mar. 6, 2020

The harmonic properties of poles and polars are given, but Desargues seems not to have arrived at the metrical properties which result when the infinite elements of the plane are introduced.

From An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry by Lehmer, Derrick Norman

It is then immediately clear, from the theory of poles and polars, that BB' and CC' pass through the pole U of the line u.

From An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry by Lehmer, Derrick Norman

The old polars wrestle like boys out of school, flounder in grotesque gambols that are laughably clumsy, good-naturedly dance on their hind legs, and even eat from their keeper's hand.

From The Story of the Trapper by Laut, A. C.