inalyzer, analyser

[Eng. analyze or analyse; -er.] 1. Gen.: One who or that which analyses. 2. Optics : The name given to a crystal mirror or other instrument used to exhibit the fact of light having undergone polarisation. "Every instrument for investigating the properties of polarised light consists e entially of two parts, one for polarising the light, the other for ascertaining the fact of light having undergone polarisation. former part is called the polarizer, the latter the analyzer."-At kins on: Ganot's Physics, 3rd ed., p. 532. The "Our incipient blue cloud is a virtual Nicol's prism, and between it and the real prism we can produce all the effects obtainable between the polariser and analyser of a polariscope."-Tyndall: Frag. of Science, 3rd ed., x. 274. ăn-a-lyz-ing, ăn -a-lys-ing, pr. par. [ANALYZE, ANALYSE, v.]