polariscope

[ poh-lar-uh-skohp, puh- ]

/ poʊˈlær əˌskoʊp, pə- /

noun Optics.

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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Origin of polariscope

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

Related formspo·lar·i·scop·ic

[poh-lar-uh-skop-ik, puh-] /poʊˌlær əˈskɒp ɪk, pə-/, adjectivepo·lar·i·scop·i·cal·ly, adverb

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Examples from the Web for polariscope

For this purpose, the polariscope prisms should be of large size, and both mounted in revolving settings.
Photography in the Studio and in the Field|Edward M. Estabrooke
What is the polariscope, and how is it employed in sugar work?
Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value|Harry Snyder
Iceland spar is used chiefly in the optical instrument known as the polariscope.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania |Jewett Castello Gilson
Arago somewhat hastily inferred from experiments with the polariscope the wholly gaseous nature of the visible disc of the sun.
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century|Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke

This is measured by the polariscope, an instrument by means of which the sugar content of sugar plants is rapidly determined.
Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value|Harry Snyder

British Dictionary definitions for polariscope

polariscope

/ (pəʊˈlærɪˌskəʊp) /

noun

an instrument for detecting polarized light or for observing objects under polarized light, esp for detecting strain in transparent materialsSee photoelasticity

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