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Definition of Polarizer

1. n. That which polarizes; especially, the part of a polariscope which receives and polarizes the light. It is usually a reflecting plate, or a plate of some crystal, as tourmaline, or a doubly refracting crystal.

Definition of Polarizer

1. Noun. (physics) Any device that produces polarized light ¹

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Definition of Polarizer

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Medical Definition of Polarizer

1. That which polarizes; especially, the part of a polarizcope which receives and polarizes the light. It is usually a reflecting plate, or a plate of some crystal, as tourmaline, or a doubly refracting crystal. A first polarizing element inserted before a preparation. When its vibration direction is at right angles to the vibration direction of the analyser, the field becomes black if no anisotropic specimen is on the stage or when viewing an anisotropic substance in an extinction position or directly down an optic axis of an anisotropic crystal. See: analyser, eyepiece, positive. (28 Oct 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Polarizer

Literary usage of Polarizer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Manual of Petrographic Methods by Albert Johannsen (1918)
"1 DB Brace: A half-shade elliptical polarizer and compensator. Physical Review, XVIII (1904), 70-88. See also Phil. Mag., VII (1904), 323. 3 Joh. ..."

2. Manual of Petrographic Methods by Albert Johannsen (1918)
"*DB Brace: A half-shade elliptical polarizer and compensator. Physical Review, XVIII (1904), 70-88. See also Phil. Mag., VII (1904), 323. 'Job. ..."

3. Manual of Petrographic Methods by Albert Johannsen (1914)
"polarizer and Analyzer.—In a petrographic microscope there are two polarizing ... The lower "nicol" is placed below the stage, and is called the polarizer. ..."

4. Practical Methods in Microscopy by Charles Herbert Clark (1900)
"placed between the polarizer and analyzer, and the Niçois must be so placed ... Either the polarizer or analyzer is mounted so as to be rotated about the ..."

5. The Optical Rotating Power of Organic Substances and Its Practical Applications by Hans Landolt, Otto Schönrock, Paul Lindner (1902)
"From this polarizer the extraordinary rays only can emerge from each side, ... In the Laurent polarizer to be now described, it will be seen that the ..."

6. College Physics by John Oren Reed, Karl Eugen Guther (1911)
"In these positions, the light from the polarizer is transmitted unchanged ... This is because the plane polarized vibrations from the polarizer are resolved ..."

7. The Elements of Vegetable Histology by Charles William Ballard (1921)
"The mountings of both polarizer and analyser may be graduated, and either or ... Upon rotating the polarizer one observes that the field becomes alternately ..."

8. Catalogue of the Special Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus at the by South Kensington Museum (1876)
"elliptically polarized „ 45° „ Axis of ^ wave film inclined about 22 3° to plane of polarizer. 5. Quartz rotary polarization. Analyzer and polarizer. ..."

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