Bipolar

Definition: Bipolar

Bipolar

Adjective

1. Having two poles.

Date "bipolar" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references)

Note: Bipolar \Bi*po"lar\, adjective. [Prefix bi- polar. Compare to Dipolar.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Bipolar

Domain	Definitions
Computing	Bipolar 1. See bipolar transistor. 2. In digital transmission, an electrical line signalling method where the mark value alternates between positive and negative polarities. See also AMI. (1995-03-02). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Medicine	Configuration of the pacing system requiring both the anode and the cathode to be located on the electrode, either in contact with the endocardium or lying free within the cardiac chamber. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Bipolar

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Bipolar can refer to:

Bipolar (biology)
Bipolar disorder
Bipolar junction transistor (electronics)

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bipolar."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Bipolar

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
BiCMOS	Danish	Bipolar komplementær metal-oxid halvleder	Electrical Engineering
BICMOS	English	Bipolar Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor	N/A
BiCMOS	Spanish	CMOS bipolar	Electrical Engineering
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Antonym: unipolar (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Bipolar

English words defined with "bipolar": bipolar disorder, Bipolarity ♦ cyclic disorder, cyclothymia, cyclothymic disorder ♦ ganglion cell ♦ unipolar depression. (references)

Specialty definitions using "bipolar": alpha-parameter, Antimanic Agents ♦ base contact, base electrode, base leakage current, BiCMOS, bipolar complementary metal oxide semiconductor, bipolar electrode, bipolar knee, bipolar transistor, bipolar-transistor lumped model, bootstrapped emitter follower, break-back voltage ♦ carrier storage, CC transistor, CE transistor, charge storage, collected current, collector current, collector-emitter sustaining voltage, common-base current gain, common-emitter current gain, custom-design technologies ♦ data service unit, double-diffused mesa transistor ♦ Ebers-Moll analysis, Ebers-Moll collector leakage current, Ebers-Moll leakage current, Ebers-Moll model, emitted current, emitter current, emitter-multiplied avalanche breakdown voltage ♦ field effect transistor, filamentary transistor, forward current gain ♦ Hemostasis, Endoscopic ♦ integrated injection logic, isolating ring ♦ LEADER SPOT, leakage current, lumped noise model ♦ meandered emitter junction, merged-transistor logic, MOUNT WILSON MAGNETIC CLASSIFICATIONS ♦ off-state collector leakage current, ohmic base resistance, Olfactory Receptor Neurons ♦ PNP, push-up ♦ ruggedised, ruggedized ♦ stored charge, SUNSPOT GROUP CLASSIFICATION. (references)

Etymologies containing "bipolar": Dipolar. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Bipolar" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

German (bipolar), Indonesian (bipolar), Portuguese (bipolar, dipolar), Romanian (bipolar), Spanish (bipolar).

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Modern Usage: Bipolar

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Bipolar bitch. (The Faculty; writing credit: David Wechter; Bruce Kimmel)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Bipolar

Domain	Title
Books	Surviving Manic Depression: A Manual on Bipolar Disorder for Patients, Families, and Providers (reference) The Bipolar Child: The Definitive and Reassuring Guide to Childhood's Most Misunderstood Disorder (Revised and Expanded Edition) (reference) Why Am I Up, Why Am I Down?: Understanding Bipolar Disorder (The Dell Guides for Mental Health) (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Clinical Approaches In Bipolar Disorders (reference) Journal Of Bipolar Disorder (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Bipolar Disorder/Manic Depression (reference) Trouble in Mind: Bipolar Personality (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Bipolar (reference) Bipolar Bear (reference) Solar Bipolar (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Bipolar

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Bipolar staining of a plague smear prepared from lymph aspirated from an adenopathic lymph node, or bubo, of plague patient.Credit: CDC.		Francisella tularensis is a poorly staining, very tiny gram-negative coccobacillus (0.2-0.7 �m), seen mostly as single cells. Bipolar staining is not a distinctive feature.Credit: CDC.
	Francisella tularensis is a poorly staining, very tiny gram-negative coccobacillus (0.2-0.7 �m), seen mostly as single cells. Bipolar staining is not a distinctive feature.Credit: CDC.		Y. pestis, is a small (0.5 x 1.0 �M) gram-negative bacillus. Bipolar staining occurs when using Wayson, Wright, Giemsa, or methylene blue stain, and may occasionally be seen in Gram-stained preparations.Credit: CDC.
	Y. pestis, is a small (0.5 x 1.0 �M) gram-negative bacillus. Bipolar staining occurs when using Wayson, Wright, Giemsa, or methylene blue stain, and may occasionally be seen in Gram-stained preparations.Credit: CDC.		Y. pestis, is a small (0.5 x 1.0 �m) gram-negative bacillus. Bipolar staining occurs when using Wayson, Wright, Giemsa, or methylene blue stain, and may occasionally be seen in Gram-stained preparations.Credit: CDC.
	Neurosyphilis is a slowly progressive and destructive infection of the brain and spinal cord that occurs in untreated syphilis. Image shows bipolar, elongated microglia or rod cells characteristic of paretic neurosyphilis; Hortega Silver stain; Mag. 950X.Credit: CDC.		The ulcerations are for the most part painless, and granulomatous in nature, i.e. chronic inflammation. The C. granulomatis bacterium is a bipolar, Gram negative organism, previously name Donovania granulomatis.Credit: CDC.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Bipolar

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Lithium is the drug of choice for preventing recurrences of bipolar disorder. (references)
		Unipolar disorder is reported to be considerably more prevalent than bipolar disorder. (references)
		The division of major mood disorders into unipolar and bipolar subtypes is clinically useful. (references)
Business		For fixed installations, outlets of up to 250 volts and between 10 and 20 amps must be bipolar and grounded. (references)
		IRAM Standard 2063 applies to non-grounded bipolar plugs of 250 volts and 10 amps, and to plugs of Class II insulated equipment. (references)
		Portable multiple bipolar outlets rated for up to 250 volts and a simultaneous current of 10 amps may be marketed only if each outlet is grounded. (references)
Economic History	Hungary	In the electronic component segment, metal-oxide semiconductors and bipolar, monolithic and hybrid integrated circuits are used in the high-tech factories the Hungarian government is committed to attracting to Hungary. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Bipolar

"Bipolar" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bipolar" is used about 77 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	77	37,929

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Bipolar

Expressions using "bipolar": bipolar complementary metal oxide semiconductor ♦ Bipolar Disorder ♦ bipolar knee ♦ bipolar transistor ♦ bipolar unity gain. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "bipolar": bipolar-transistor.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bipolar

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
bipolar	4,089	lamictal bipolar	50
bipolar disorder	3,734	trastorno bipolar	50
bipolar disease	345	bipolar ii disorder	46
bipolar affective disorder	287	bipolar topomax	45
bipolar depression	195	bipolar in child	45
bipolar symptom	155	seroquel bipolar	43
bipolar disorder symptom	145	bipolar transtorno	41
bipolar child	140	bipolar chat rooms	37
bipolar medication	110	bipolar disorder and child	37
bipolar ii	78	bipolar disorder diagnosis	35
bipolar test	73	bipolar chat room	35
manic depression bipolar	71	bipolar quiz	34
bipolar disorder in child	68	bipolar personality	33
bipolar disorder treatment	63	bipolar illness	32
bipolar chat	61	bipolar 2	31
bipolar transistor	56	cause of bipolar disorder	29
bipolar group support	54	bipolar mania	28
bipolar disorder medication	54	bipolar syndrome	28
bipolar trileptal	52	bipolar mood disorder	28
bipolar treatment	51	bipolar bizkit limp	27
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Modern Translations: Bipolar

Language		Translations for "bipolar"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		dypolar. (various references)

Arabic		‏ثنائي القطب (dipolar). (various references)

Bulgarian		двуполюсен (polar). (various references)

Chinese		双极 (Dipolar). (various references)

Czech		bipolární. (various references)

Danish		bipolar (double-pole, two-pole), topolet (double-pole, two-pole), dobbeltpolet. (various references)

Dutch		bipolair, tweepolig (double-pole, two-pole). (various references)

Farsi		دوقطبی , دوانتهاءی . (various references)

Finnish		bipolaarinen, kaksinapainen. (various references)

French		bipolaire. (various references)

German		zweipolig (double-pole, two-pole), bipolar (double-pole, two-pole). (various references)

Greek		διπολικόσ, διπολικός, διπολικό (double-pole, two-pole). (various references)

Hungarian		kétpólusú, kétsarkú, bipoláris. (various references)

Indonesian		bipolar. (various references)

Italian		bipolare (bifilar, double-pole, two-pole). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		正反対 (exactly opposite, polar, polarity). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		せいは�"たい (exactly opposite, polar, polarity). (various references)

Manx		daa-phoalagh (two-pole). (various references)

Pig Latin		ipolarbay

Portuguese		bipolar (dipolar, double-pole, two-pole). (various references)

Romanian		bipolar. (various references)

Russian		двухполюсный (double pole, double-pole). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		bipolarni, dvopolan (androgynous). (various references)

Spanish		bipolar (double-pole, two-pole). (various references)

Swedish		bipolär. (various references)

Turkish		iki kutuplu (dipolar). (various references)

Ukranian		двополюсний. (various references)

Vietnamese		lưỡng cực. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Bipolar

Derivations
	Words beginning with "bipolar": bipolarities, bipolarity, bipolarization, bipolarizations, bipolarize, bipolarized, bipolarizes, bipolarizing. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Bipolar" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bioalarm, Biollay, Biopharm, bioplex, biopol, biopolar, Bioral, biowar, bipoiar, bipolars, bipollar, Bitolia, Bizouard, bypolar. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Bipolar"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "bipolar" (pronounced bīpō"ler)
4	-p ō" l er	polar.
3	-ō" l er	bolar, bowler, Comptroller, controller, roller, solar, Stroller, tolar, Toller.
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Anagrams: Bipolar

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: parboil.
	Words within the letters "a-b-i-l-o-p-r"
	-1 letter: bailor.
	-2 letters: aboil, bolar, boral, brail, broil, labor, libra, lobar, parol, pibal, pilar, polar.
	-3 letters: abri, aril, bail, birl, blip, boar, boil, bola, bora, brio, lair, lari, liar, lipa, lira, obia, opal, oral, pail, pair, pial, prao, proa, rail, rial, roil.
	-4 letters: abo, ail, air, alb, alp, arb, bal, bap, bar, bio, boa, bop.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-i-l-o-p-r"
	+1 letter: panbroil, parboils.
	+2 letters: clipboard, panbroils, parabolic, parboiled.
	+3 letters: bipolarity, bipolarize, clipboards, importable, improbable, improbably, improvable, inoperable, panbroiled, paraboloid, parboiling, procambial, profitable, profitably, proverbial.
	+4 letters: ailurophobe, bipolarized, bipolarizes, blastoporic, boilerplate, disprovable, operability, panbroiling, paraboloids, polarizable, portability, postorbital, prelibation, probabilism, probabilist, probability, probational, problematic, subtropical, vaporizable.
	+5 letters: ailurophobes, ailurophobia, appropriable, bibliography, biographical, bipolarities, bipolarizing, bipropellant, boilerplates, clapboarding, equiprobable, hyperbolical, imponderable, imponderably, incomparable, incomparably, incorporable, paraboloidal, prelibations, probabilisms, probabilists, problematics, proverbially, supraorbital, unprofitable, unprofitably.
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