Unipolar vs Unilinear - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between unipolar and unilinear

is that unipolar is having a single pole while unilinear is made up of one single line.

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Having a single pole.

* {{quote-news, 2008, Dec. 31, Michael Kinsley, The Bush Presidency, Eight Years Later, Time citation

, 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.

* monopolar

* unipolar depression * unipolar encoding * unipolar motor * unipolar neuron

(en adjective)

Made up of one single line.

* unilinearly * unilinearity