Mathematics
- Pole and polar (a point and a line), a construction in geometry
- Polar curve (a point and a curve), a generalization of a point and a line
- Polar coordinate system, uses a central point and angles
- Polar set, with respect to a bilinear pairing of vector spaces
- Polar cone
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