NICOL PRISM


Meaning of NICOL PRISM in English

/nik"euhl/ , Optics.

one of a pair of prisms used to produce and analyze plane-polarized light in a polarizing microscope. Also called Nicol . Cf. polarizer (def. 1).

[ 1870-75; after William Nicol (1768-1851), British physicist, its inventor ]

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