multipolar

adjective

mul·ti·po·lar | \ ˌməl-tē-ˈpō-lər

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Definition of multipolar

1 : having several poles (see pole entry 3) a multipolar generator multipolar mitoses

2 : having several dendrites multipolar neurons

3 : characterized by more than two centers of power or interest a multipolar world

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Recent Examples on the Web This is a self-defeating ambition in a multipolar world, though there are a few hopeful signs of ambiguity: Biden has renounced regime change and promised to revive START talks with Russia. — Jackson Lears, The New York Review of Books, "Don’t Wish for a Restoration," 3 Nov. 2020 In this increasingly multipolar financial system, the digitization of currency will be perhaps the most important factor in an economy’s success. — Michael J. Casey, Fortune, "Why the U.S. shouldn’t let China dominate the digital currency race," 7 Apr. 2020 As Europe’s economies became more integrated and China grew, the prospect of a multipolar world, in which the dollar shared reserve-currency duties with the euro and the renminbi, loomed. — The Economist, "What comes after Bretton Woods II?," 15 Aug. 2019 Now our increasingly multipolar world has loosened up brand-new tangents of human yearning. — Paul Salopek, The New Yorker, "A Twenty-Four-Thousand-Mile Walk Across Human History," 17 June 2019 The immediate post-Cold War world is not multipolar. — Jane Coaston, Vox, "Charles Krauthammer was the anti-Breitbart conservative writer," 21 June 2018 The Arab Gulf monarchies can be expected to pursue closer ties with these powers, making the Gulf look more like a multipolar system than at any point since the end of the Cold War. — Jonathan Fulton, Washington Post, "China is trying to pull Middle East countries into its version of NATO," 21 June 2017 Others lament that a US turning away from its traditional leadership role would not simply result in a more multipolar world, but would undermine the pillars on which American security and prosperity were built over the past 70 years. — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, "After Trump trip, is Europe ready to go it alone?," 31 May 2017

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multipolar

adjective

mul·ti·po·lar | \ ˌməl-ti-ˈpō-lər

, -ˌtī-

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Medical Definition of multipolar

1 : having several poles multipolar mitoses

2 : having several dendrites multipolar nerve cells

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