Kerr cell

[ kahr, kur ]

/ kɑr, kɜr /

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noun Physics.

a transparent cell filled with a fluid, usually nitrobenzene, and containing two electrodes placed between two polarizing light filters, suitable for demonstrating the Kerr effect and often used as a high-speed camera shutter.

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Origin of Kerr cell

First recorded in1925–30; see origin at Kerr effect

Words nearby Kerr cell

keroid, kerosene, Kerouac, kerplunk, Kerr, Kerr cell, Kerr effect, kerria, Kerrville, kerry, Kerry blue terrier

How to use Kerr cell in a sentence

Joel Osteen wants to talk about muting your cell phone at the dinner table.
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At that point, the Library of Congress can once again decide to prohibit consumers from unlocking their cell phones.
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Earlier this year, security at major airports was tightened because of a tip that al-Asiri had been working on a cell phone bomb.
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At least one of those ubiquitous cell phone cameras began filming.
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In fact, four of 20 cells at Cobalt were found to have bars across the cell to allow this.
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In his condemned cell he composed a beautiful poem of 14 verses (“My last Thought”), which was found by his wife and published.
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Some writers state that each cell contains about one thousand seeds.
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Any epithelial cell may be so granular from degenerative changes that the nucleus is obscured.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
The sediment contains a few hyaline and finely granular casts and an occasional red blood-cell.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
The megaloblast is probably a distinct cell, not merely a larger size of the normoblast.
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