noun
monopole; singular pole; unipole
Technical term used in physics and related fields to refer to a hypothetical particle with only one magnetic pole, or more generally a single pole in a system.
磁石の一極だけを取り出すことは難しい。
It is difficult to isolate just one pole of a magnet.
このモデルでは、一極の電荷を仮定している。
This model assumes a singular pole charge.