polariscope

American  

[poh-lar-uh-skohp, puh-] / poʊˈlær əˌskoʊp, pə- /

noun

Optics.

1. an instrument for measuring or exhibiting the polarization of light or for examining substances in polarized light, often to determine stress and strain in glass and other substances.

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polariscope British  

/ pəʊˈlærɪˌskəʊp /

noun

1. an instrument for detecting polarized light or for observing objects under polarized light, esp for detecting strain in transparent materials See photoelasticity

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Other Word Forms

• polariscopic
  adjective
• polariscopically
  adverb

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Etymology

Origin of polariscope

1820–30; < Medieval Latin polāri ( s ) polar + -scope

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Example Sentences

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polariscope

Patient work with chemicals and a polariscope discovered the three new kinds of fruit sugar in the remaining 5%.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Abderhalden has found that the polariscope can show it also.

From The Treasure-Train by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

Iceland spar is used chiefly in the optical instrument known as the polariscope.

From Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania by Jewett Castello Gilson

The difficulty was settled by using the polariscope, which gave an absolute chemical test of the sweetness, irrespective of color.

From Principles Of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill

The instrument commonly employed for measuring the optic axial angle of biaxial crystals is really a combination of a goniometer with a polariscope.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various

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