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Polar may refer to:
As a noun:
- CervecerÃa Polar, C.A., Venezuelan brewery and beer
- Polar (artist), Norwegian electronic music artist
- Polar (satellite), satellite launched by NASA in 1996.
- Polar (album), second album by The High Water Marks
- Polar (cataclysmic variable), strongly magnetic cataclysmic variable star system
- POLAR II, pedestrian test dummy created by Honda, used to study how pedestrians injuries in road traffic accidents
- Polar, Wisconsin, town in Langlade County, Wisconsin, United States
- Polar Beverages, a beverage producer and distributor
- Polar Electro, Finnish heart rate monitor manufacturer
- Polar line, a construction in geometry
As an adjective:
- Pertaining to the geographical pole, either of two fixed points on the surface of a spinning body or plant, at 90 degrees from the equator, based on the axis around which a body spins
- Pertaining to the polar region, region within the polar circles, referred to as the Arctic and Antarctic
- Pertaining to chemical polarity, concept in chemistry which describes how equally bonding electrons are shared between atoms
- Pertaining to a polar coordinate system
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