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Definition of Nicol
1. a type of prism [n -S] - See also: prism
Medical Definition of Nicol
1. William, Scottish physicist, 1768-1851. See: Nicol prism. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nicol
Literary usage of Nicol
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Light by Robert Alexander Houstoun (1915)
"186) denote the principal section of the first nicol and OA the principal ...
Let a be the amplitude of the light after emerging from the first nicol. ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1907)
"By his will (' Com. of St. Andrews ') he leaves a third of his goods to James,
Nicol, Helen, Janet, Bessie, and Christian, sons and daus. of Robert ..."
3. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1891)
"When ordinary light is sent through a Nicol prism (which is a rhomb of Iceland
spar divided into two in a certain direction, the halves being subsequently ..."
4. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1893)
"When ordinary light is sent through a Nicol prism (which is a rhomb of Iceland
spar divided into two in a certain direction, the halves being subsequently ..."
5. Physical Optics by Robert Williams Wood (1905)
"The Nicol used alone will not give evidence of the presence of less than about
20% of polarization, consequently in cases where the polarization is not ..."
6. Manual of Petrographic Methods by Albert Johannsen (1918)
"If, now, a ray of light falls upon one end of the nicol prism, ... 1 William
Nicol: On a Method of so far increasing the Divergence of the two Rays in ..."
7. The Methods of Petrographic-microscopic Research, Their Relative Accuracy by Frederic Eugene Wright (1911)
"It would be better, for many reasons, to use only a short cap nicol above the
ocular, ... The lengthening of the optical path by the upper nicol is often ..."
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