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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Seconds after starting up her portable methane analyzer it is clear that the air is enriched with methane and the culprit is soon found.
From Science Daily • Feb. 29, 2024
Authorities also raided Shyambazar using a machine called an X-ray fluorescence analyzer which can quickly detect lead in spices.
From Salon • Aug. 2, 2023
Other instruments, including a magnetometer and interstellar dust analyzer, would further investigate the interaction of our sun and the interstellar medium.
From Scientific American • Jan. 6, 2022
Use a cost analyzer to see how much you could save.
From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2021
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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