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say it: poh-lur-IM-uh-tur
polarimeter is a noun meaning "an optical device used to measure the rotation of the plane of vibration of polarized light". It is pronounced /ˌpoʊlɚˈɪmətɚ/ — poh-lur-IM-uh-tur. It carries one recorded sense.
an optical device used to measure the rotation of the plane of vibration of polarized light
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for polarimeter come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.