uni plicate (uniplikat)

[L. unus, one, + plicatus, pp. of plicare, fold: see plicate.] Once folded; having or forming a single fold. Compare duplicate, triplicate, quadruplicate. unipolar (u-ni-pō'lär), a. [L. unus, one, + pol us, pole: see polar.] 1. Exhibiting one kind of polarity. The so-called " unipolar " induction supposed to be due to the rotation of the earth, which behaves like a gigantic magnet. P. G. Tait , Encyc. Brit., XXIII. 330. 2. In biol., having a single pole, as a nerve-cell or a rete: correlated with bipolar, multipolar. If the rete remains broken up, then it is known as a diffuse, unipolar , or mono centric rete mirabile. Gegenbaur , Comp. Anat. (trans.), p. 597. Unipolar conduction. Same as irreciprocal conduction (which see, under irreciprocal ). - Unipolar dynamo, a dynamo in which an electromotive force is induced in a conductor by causing it to revolve round one pole of a magnet.