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POLAR REGION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does polar region mean?
• POLAR REGION (noun)
The noun POLAR REGION has 1 sense:
1. the part of the Earth's surface forming a cap over a pole; characterized by frigid climate
Familiarity information: POLAR REGION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The part of the Earth's surface forming a cap over a pole; characterized by frigid climate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
Frigid Zone; polar region; polar zone
Hypernyms ("polar region" is a kind of...):
climatic zone (any of the geographical zones loosely divided according to prevailing climate and latitude)
Instance hyponyms:
Antarctic; Antarctic Zone; South Frigid Zone (the region around the south pole: Antarctica and surrounding waters)
Arctic; Arctic Zone; North Frigid Zone (the regions to the north of the Arctic Circle centered on the North Pole)
Context examples
Above those features is a polar region that is intermediate in brightness.
(A “Heart” from Pluto as Flyby Begins, NASA)
Previous analysis of Cassini data suggested the presence of a lens-shaped body of water, or sea, underlying the moon's south polar region.
(Cassini Finds Global Ocean in Saturn's Moon Enceladus, NASA)
A new study reports that the south polar region of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus is warmer than expected just a few feet below its icy surface.
(Cassini Sees Heat Below the Icy Surface of Enceladus, NASA)
During its routine yearly monitoring of the weather on our solar system's outer planets, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a new mysterious dark storm on Neptune (right) and provided a fresh look at a long-lived storm circling around the north polar region on Uranus (left).
(Hubble Reveals Dynamic Atmospheres of Uranus, Neptune, NASA)
Many features that appear to be individual jets of material erupting along the length of prominent fractures in the moon's south polar region might be phantoms created by an optical illusion, according to the new study.
(Saturn Moon's Activity Could Be 'Curtain Eruptions', NASA)
However, gravity data collected during the spacecraft's several close passes over the south polar region lent support to the possibility the sea might be global.
(Cassini Finds Global Ocean in Saturn's Moon Enceladus, NASA)
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