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Tropical vs Polar - What's the difference?

tropical | polar |

As nouns the difference between tropical and polar

is that tropical is a tropical plant while polar is .

As an adjective tropical

is of or north and 23 degrees south.

tropical

English

Alternative forms

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Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or north and 23 degrees south.
  • From or similar to a hot climate, e.g. tropical fruit, tropical weather.
  • (dated) Pertaining to, involving, or of the nature of a .
  • (Jeremy Taylor)
  • * South
  • The foundation of all parables is some analogy or similitude between the tropical or allusive part of the parable and the thing intended by it.

    Derived terms

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A tropical plant.
  • polar

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • 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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