Polar
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Polar may refer to:
Organizations
- Cervecería Polar, C.A., Venezuelan brewery and beer
- Polar (artist), Norwegian electronic music artist
- Polar Music, Swedish record company founded by Stikkan Andersson
- Polar Beverages, a beverage producer and distributor
- Polar Electro, a Finnish manufacturer of athletic training computers and heart rate monitoring equipment
Science, technology, and mathematics
- Polar (satellite), a satellite launched by NASA in 1996
- Polar (cataclysmic variable), a strongly magnetic cataclysmic variable star system
- POLAR III and POLAR II, a pedestrian test dummy created by Honda, used to study pedestrian injuries in road traffic accidents
- Polar curve (aviation), a diagram that depicts the gliding performance of an aircraft
- Polar fleece, an insulating synthetic wool fabric
- Chemical polarity, a concept in chemistry which describes how equally bonding electrons are shared between atoms
- Mathematics
- Polar line, a construction in geometry
- Polar coordinate system, uses a central point and angles
Television, film, and music
- Polar (album), second album by The High Water Marks
Geography
- 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
Places
- Polar, Wisconsin, town in Langlade County, Wisconsin, United States