Multipolar vs Unipolar - What's the difference?
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(physics, biology) Having more than two poles.
(politics) Having multiple centres of political or military influence
* 2012 , (Christopher Clark), The Sleepwalkers , Penguin 2013, p. 121:
Having a single pole.
* {{quote-news, 2008, Dec. 31, Michael Kinsley, The Bush Presidency, Eight Years Later, Time
, passage=All that talk of one superpower -- us -- bestriding a "unipolar " world seems as dated as Seinfeld reruns.}}
(psychology, medicine) Not both depressive and manic; not bipolar.
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Unipolar is a related term of multipolar.
As adjectives the difference between multipolar and unipolar
is that multipolar is having more than two poles while unipolar is having a single pole.multipolar
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* multi-polarAdjective
(en adjective)- The first diagram reveals a multi-polar system, in which a plurality of forces and interests balance each other in precarious equilibrium.
unipolar
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