nicol prism

1. 1.

   optical device that produces plane-polarized light

   Broaderoptical device

Questions about nicol prism

What does nicol prism mean?

nicol prism means "optical device that produces plane-polarized light".

Is nicol prism a common word?

nicol prism is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.