analyzer
Americannoun
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a person, machine, or device that analyzes.
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Optics. a polarizing device, often a Nicol prism, that indicates the direction of vibration of light by selecting and transmitting only the component of linearly polarized light in that direction.
Etymology
Origin of analyzer
Example Sentences
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Last year as a doctoral student, Banga won a second-tier Baxter Young Investigator Award for a handheld breath analyzer that can detect respiratory diseases, including COVID-19, in seconds.
From Science Daily • Feb. 5, 2024
Inside the cochlea, the basilar membrane is a mechanical analyzer that runs the length of the cochlea, curling toward the cochlea’s center.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
DAG SPICER: Well, a differential analyzer was a, originally quite a large, almost room-sized mechanical contraption…And it was really about gears and wheels and shafts and pulleys.
From Scientific American • Apr. 7, 2022
And the NFL got around one variability obstacle by requiring that all the PCR tests be done on the same lab equipment — Roche's cobas analyzer — and by certain laboratories.
From Salon • Mar. 13, 2022
Trained as an electrical engineer, in the 1920s he had invented a machine known as a differential analyzer: an analog computer whose digital offspring would dominate the information age.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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