Multipolar

·add. ·adj Having many poles; in Anat., designating specif. a nerve cell which has several dendrites.

II. Multipolar ·adj Having many poles;

— applied especially to those ganglionic nerve cells which have several radiating processes.

III. Multipolar ·add. ·adj Having, or pertaining to, many poles, as a field magnet or armature of a dynamo, or a dynamo having such a field magnet or (sometimes) armature.