DEPOLARIZER
\diːpˈə͡ʊləɹˌa͡ɪzə], \diːpˈəʊləɹˌaɪzə], \d_iː_p_ˈəʊ_l_ə_ɹ_ˌaɪ_z_ə]\
Definitions of DEPOLARIZER
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- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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By Noah Webster.
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An apparatus consisting of a. plate formed from the section of the principal plane of a double refracting prism which, when interposed at any angle between the polarizing surface and the analyzer, refracts and resolves the polarized ray into ordinary and extraordinary rays which attain the analyzer in planes that are neither parallel nor perpendicular to its principal plane, and are therefore again refracted, the sum of the images of like name forming separate images which are individually transmitted.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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