unipolar

Having, acting by means of, or produced by a single magnetic or electric pole.

Having a single fibrous process. Used of a neuron.

Relating to or being a mood disorder that includes depression and not mania or hypomania.

In electricity, pertaining to a unipolar or nonpolar electric machine, that is, a machine in which the armature rotates in a. uniform magnetic field. Unipolar electric generators require high speeds and therefore were not used before the advent of the steam turbine.

Exhibiting one kind of polarity.

In biology, having a single pole, as a nerve-cell or a rete: correlated with bipolar, multipolar.

Having, or acting by means of, one pole only.

Having but one pole or process; — applied to those ganglionic nerve cells which have but one radiating process; — opposed to multipolar.

induction, as in a conducting circuit, by only one pole of a magnet.

the simulation sometimes produced when one electrode of an induction apparatus is applied to a nerve; — called also unipolar induction action.