See compression of the poles.
·noun The act of compressing, or state of being compressed. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·adj Pertaining to, reckoned from, or having a common radiating point; as, polar coordinates. II. P...
·add. ·- A projectile constructed so as to take the grooves of a rifle by means of a soft copper ban...
·adj Possessing electrical polarity; positively electrified at one end, or on one surface, and negat...
·adj Electrically polarized like the surface of the zinc presented to the acid in a battery, which h...
The Arctic and the Antarctic; 23° 28′ from either pole. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
The complement of the declination. The angular distance of a heavenly body from one of the poles, co...
Those parts of the world which lie within the Arctic and Antarctic circles. ...
The amount of flattening at the polar regions of a planet, by which the polar diameter is less than ...