Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
The line joining the points of contact of tangents drawn to meet a curve from a point called the pole of the line.
adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryOf, relating to, measured from, or referred to a geographic pole (the North Pole or South Pole); within the Arctic or Antarctic circles. · Of an orbit that passes over, or near, one of these poles. · Having a dipole; ionic. · Of a coordinate system, specifying the location of a point in a plane by using a radius and an angle.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-der. Proto-Indo-European *kʷól-os Proto-Hellenic *pólos Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos)bor. Latin polus Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin -āris Late Latin polārislbor. English polar Learned borrowing from Late Latin polāris. By surface analysis, pole + -ar.
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