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单词 unipolar
释义

unipolar

adjective

uni·​po·​lar ˌyü-ni-ˈpō-lər How to pronounce unipolar (audio)
1
: having or oriented in respect to a single pole: such as
a
: having or involving the use of a single magnetic or electrical pole
b
: based on or controlled by a single factor or view
China mistrusts a unipolar, U.S.-dominated world. Thomas A. Stewart
2
psychology : being, characteristic of, or affected by unipolar depression
unipolar depressive episodes
unipolar patients

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web For Africans, for black people, a unipolar world is hell on earth. Lauren Markham, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022 First hosted by Bill Clinton in Miami in 1994, that inaugural meeting marked a moment of U.S. ascendency, as America stood atop a unipolar world after the collapse of the Soviet Union. William Neuman, The Atlantic, 13 June 2022 There’s a big difference between how the United States behaved during the unipolar moment and how it’s behaved in the course of its history. Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2022 The unipolar world led by America at the end of the 20th century has evolved into multiple challenges to US dominance from a rising China to a revanchist Russia that threatens the democratic world order. Stephen Collinson, CNN, 11 Feb. 2022 That's the great mistake the West made at the end of the Cold War: assuming the unipolar moment of Western and, more specifically, American dominance was or could be a permanent condition. Noah Millman, The Week, 9 Jan. 2022 The unipolar world of American leadership that came before, where crises were dealt with, was hardly a model of good governance, calm, and strategic thinking. Tom Mctague, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2021 The end of the unipolar moment was hastened by these wars, and by much else. Michael Krepon, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021 But it's been especially so since 1989, when the collapse of our superpower rival inspired providential reveries of a unipolar world led, largely unimpeded, by the U.S. and its allies. Damon Linker, TheWeek, 9 Dec. 2020 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1806, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Medical Definition

unipolar

adjective

uni·​po·​lar ˌyü-ni-ˈpō-lər How to pronounce unipolar (audio)
1
: involving or being an electrode or lead attached to the surface of a bodily site (as the chest) for recording the difference in electrical potential between the site and that of another electrode or lead having zero potential
2
of a neuron : having but one process
3
: being, characteristic of, or affected by unipolar depression
unipolar depressive episodes
unipolar patients
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