polariscope

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

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.

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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Historical Examples of polariscope

What is the polariscope, and how is it employed in sugar work?
Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value
Harry Snyder
They were unknown until the microscope was invented; the polariscope reveals yet further beauties; the telescope yet more.
The Churches and Modern Thought
Philip Vivian
If these give a positive result, we proceed to a quantitative examination by means of the polariscope.
Schenk's Theory: The Determination of Sex
Samuel Leopold Schenk
Appearance of the black cross and coloured circles in a square and circular piece of unannealed glass in the polariscope.
The Boy's Playbook of Science
John Henry Pepper
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

British Dictionary definitions for polariscope

polariscope

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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