a. [f. BI- pref.2 1 + POLAR.] Having two poles or opposite extremities; in Phys. applied to nerve-cells connected with the nerve-fibers by two prolongations.
1859. Todd, Cycl. Anat. & Phys., V. 282/1. The vaso-ganglions of the eel … are bipolar.
1865. Mansfield, Salts, 4. This bipolar, two-membered system.
fig. 1810. Coleridge, Friend, ix. (ed. 3), III. 171. Philosophy being necessarily bipolar.
1875. E. White, Life in Christ, III. xix. (1878), 254. The Divine Nature is revealed as bipolar, or of double aspect.
