Boreal vs Polar - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between boreal and polar

is that boreal is (geology|paleontology) a subdivision of the holocene epoch while polar is .

(en adjective)

Of, relating to, or coming from the north.

* septentrional * northern

* austral * meridional

(-)

of, relating to, measured from, or referred to a geographic pole (the North Pole or South Pole)

of an orbit that passes over, or near, one of these poles

(chemistry) having a dipole; ionic

(mathematics) of a coordinate system, specifying the location of a point in a plane by using a radius and an angle

(linguistics, of a question) Having but two possible answers, yes'' and ''no .

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