Definitions for polarizer

polarizer po·lar·iz·er

Spelling: [poh-luh-rahy-zer]
IPA: /ˈpoʊ ləˌraɪ zər/

Polarizer is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 314 anagrams from letters in polarizer (aeiloprrz).

Definitions for polarizer

noun

  1. a person or thing that polarizes.
  2. Optics. a device, often a crystal or prism, that polarizes light.

Origin of polarizer

First recorded in 1850-55; polarize + -er1

Examples for polarizer

Placing the plate in front of the polarizer, I turn one of the Nicols until the two halves of the plate show a common puce colour.

Through this glass the beam from the polarizer now passes, being intercepted by the Nicol in front.

Introducing a plate of quartz between the polarizer and the spar, the two images glow with complementary colours.

Big yellow eyes blinked unemotionally at the glare of the torch, and I cut down its brilliance with a twist of the polarizer lens.

But the cold, white glare was more intense than he had expected, and he had to shut them again and turn on the polarizer.

I would deny flatly that I had anything to do with the polarizer, in any case.

First, then, we have a prism which receives the light from the electric lamp, and which is called the polarizer.

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