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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who or that which analyzes, or has the power of analyzing.
  • noun Specifically— In optics, the part of a polariscope which receives the light after polarization and exhibits its properties: usually a section or prism cut from a doubly refracting crystal.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who, or that which, analyzes.
  • noun (Opt.) The part of a polariscope which receives the light after polarization, and exhibits its properties.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun US an instrument for the analysis of something
  • noun US a person who analyzes

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an instrument that performs analyses

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