polarward
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
In the direction of the North Pole or the South Pole; away from the equator.
adv
Toward the North Pole or the South Pole; away from the equator.
Example Sentences
- "On the polarward side of the trough, the disturbance appears as the wave in the Easterlies described by Riehl [9]."
- "In general, the polarward flow is strongest as a result of western intensification (Stommel, 1948; Munk and Carrier, 1950)."
- "However, during low geomagnetic activity the distribution of latitudinally asymmetric events is close to Iijima and Potermra's Region 1 and 2 current picture: the equatorward events prevail in the morning and postmidnight sectors, and the polarward ones – in the evening and premidnight."
- "There is, therefere, a constant tendency with the air that these upper currents carry polarward to be crowded out, so to speak — to slough off and turn back."
- "Continued low temperatures soon left little moisture in the air with the result that sublimation is today moving glaciers polarward all over the world."
- "SMW would be formed at the salinity maximum spreading both polarward and equatorward."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more polarward (comparative)
most polarward (superlative)