Definitions for polariscope

polariscope po·lar·i·scope

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

Polariscope is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 1171 anagrams from letters in polariscope (aceiloopprs).

Definitions for polariscope

noun

  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.

Origin of polariscope

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

Examples for polariscope

Thus the polariscope was found to have told the truth, though not the whole truth.

For this purpose, the polariscope prisms should be of large size, and both mounted in revolving settings.

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

Appearance of the black cross and coloured circles in a square and circular piece of unannealed glass in the polariscope.

They were unknown until the microscope was invented; the polariscope reveals yet further beauties; the telescope yet more.

This is measured by the polariscope, an instrument by means of which the sugar content of sugar plants is rapidly determined.

On account of the predominance of invert sugars, pure honey has a levulo or left-handed rotation when examined by the polariscope.

Arago somewhat hastily inferred from experiments with the polariscope the wholly gaseous nature of the visible disc of the sun.

If these give a positive result, we proceed to a quantitative examination by means of the polariscope.

What is the polariscope, and how is it employed in sugar work?

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