A cant used in the London fishmarkets, in the British theatre, and by the homosexual community in Britain, attested since at least the 19th century and popularised in the 1950s and 1960s by the camp characters Julian and Sandy in the popular BBC radio show Round the Horne.

(Polari) To talk.

(astronomy) The pole star, a trinary star in the constellation Ursa Minor that currently lies close to the north celestial pole; Alpha (α) Ursae Minoris

(obsolete) Tending towards a pole.

(physics) Of or pertaining to polarimetry, or measured using a polarimeter

(physics) The measurement of the polarization of electromagnetic radiation / (chemistry) Analysis using a polarimeter

An instrument used to measure the rotation of the plane of polarized light as it passes through a sample of an optically active compound; cf. colmascope.

plural of polarimeter

Alternative spelling of polarizability

plural of polarisability; Alternative spelling of polarizabilities