きょく
Meanings
Noun
1. pole
2. climax; extreme; extremity; culmination; height; zenith; nadir
Kanji used
extreme
Pitch accent
きょ
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Used in vocabulary (62 in total)
extreme; extremity
to the utmost; to the best of one's ability
maximum; extreme; utmost
antipodes; other (opposite) extreme; opposite; antithesis
South Pole; the Antarctic; Antarctica
maximum; local maximum
extreme logic; extreme argument; unreserved argument
minimum; minuscule; local minimum
polar regions; the pole; farthest land; ends of the earth
pole (north, south); climax; extreme (point)
min-maxing; concentrating points on a specific ability
min-maxing; concentrating points on a specific ability
both extremities; North and South Poles; positive and negative poles
very (extremely) low temperature
being frank; going so far as to say
microscopic; infinitesimal
limitless; apolar; limitlessness of taiji
bipolarization; bipolarisation
extreme left; ultraleft
ultrahigh frequency; UHF; ultrashort waves
polar night
having two poles; bipolar
polarization (light, radio waves); polarisation
cathode; positive pole; positive electrode
negative pole; anode; south magnetic pole
anode; plus terminal; positive pole
celestial poles
polar body (cell structure within the ovum)
extreme eroticism; something very erotic
polar vortex; polar cell
a place of extreme cold
geographical pole
Far East Command; FEC; United States military headquarters in the western Pacific after World War II
polar easterlies; polar Hadley cells
crisis; grave danger; serious depression
Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea)
Examples (1 in total)
The lines of this field run between magnetic north and magnetic south at the two poles.