单词 | analyser |
释义 | analyseranalyzern. 1. a. A person who engages in analysis. Frequently with modifying adjective. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > close examination, scrutiny > [noun] > analysis > person engaged in anatomist1587 analyser1610 analyst1753 1610 Bp. J. Hall Common Apol. against Brownists 124 I neede no better Analyser then your selfe. 1658 J. Bramhall Consecration Protestant Bishops Justified ii. 25 Nor doth [he] take himself to be so exact an Analyser of a discourse, as to be able to take his Oath what was the true scope of it. 1751 Student 2 No. 10. 380 This appointment of the great Author of nature is clearly revealed, and well understood by the true analyser. 1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy III. xxxviii. 174 Thou faithful analyzer of my Disgrázias. 1869 J. Martineau Ess. Philos. & Theol. 2nd Ser. 10 Bacon—the great analyzer of common sense. 1938 D. Katz & R. Schanck Social Psychol. iii. xiv. 524 The poet is generally not a clear thinker and analyzer. 1992 N.Y. Times Mag. 12 Jan. 20/1 They are the proponents and the analyzers, the judge and the jury. b. spec. A person who carries out chemical analyses; = analyst n. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical assay or analytical chemistry > [noun] > general chemical analysis > one who carries out analyser1756 analyst1786 1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters iii. 305 Our new analysers..make it..to suit their different purposes. 1854 Times 26 Apr. 7/6 To..enable the magistrates and town-councils to appoint public analyzers in towns. 1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 25 Aug. 9/2 The Calcutta analyzers call it an impure peat. 1909 Lancet 10 July 92/1 Appointments in the assay department, the chemical analyser's department, and the bacteriological department. 2005 Liverpool Echo (Nexis) 27 Jan. 14 Peter McQue originally worked as an analyser and instrumentation engineer for chemical and analysis companies. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical substances > [noun] > types by properties agent1624 analyser1661 pyrophorus1734 pyrophore1788 frigoric1812 diffusate1850 diffusant1867 cryogen1875 metachrome1876 carrier1902 getter1912 active1918 network former1947 network modifier1947 radiosensitizer1953 monophase1968 1661 R. Boyle Sceptical Chymist i. 55 The particular Reasons that incline me to Doubt, whether the Fire be the true and universal Analyzer of mixt Bodies. 1666 D. Coxe Let. 19 Jan. in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) III. 31 I confesse indeed most of the ordinary analyzers (such are corrosive Acid Spiritts & Salts) divide into Intergrall only, not Elementary parts. ?1734 P. Shaw Chem. Lect. ix. 172 Water in some Cases is a better Analyser than the Fire. 1790 W. Nicholson First Princ. Chem. iii. vii. 312 The fixed air came from the plumbago, and not from the nitre, the first analyser of this substance. ΚΠ 1823 J. Harrison (title) Etymological enchiridion or practical analyzer shewing the etymon or root of all the words in the English tongue. 1869 F. A. March (title) A parser and analyzer for beginners. 4. A device for performing analysis. a. Optics. In a polariscope or other instrument: a component that only transmits light polarized in a particular direction following its passage through a polarizer. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instruments to refract, etc., light > [noun] > polariscope > parts of tourmaline1816 analyser1833 polarizer1837 biquartz1878 biplate1890 1833 Trans. Cambr. Philos. Soc. 4 314 This may be considered as the general explanation of the use of an analyzer, including in this term the common analyzing plate as well as such combinations as will be hereafter described. 1854 B. Powell Pereira's Lect. Polarized Light (ed. 2) 50 Either part..may be used as polarizer or analyzer; but whichever we use as the polarizer, the other then becomes the analyser. 1907 Science 1 Mar. 349/2 In relatively thin plates..the identity of color may be restored on rotating the analyzer to the right. 2002 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 4272 Observed in a polarizing microscope between parallel polars instead of either a polarizer or analyzer alone, the fluorescence polarization ratio rises to an unexpectedly high value. b. Any of various devices used to analyse data, signals, equipment performance, etc., or to measure and collect data for analysis. Also: a piece of computer software used for analysis. Chiefly with distinguishing word.differential, harmonic, network, spectrum, voice stress, wave analyser: see the first element. ΚΠ 1879 Proc. Royal Soc. 28 48 The Harmonic Analyser of Sir W. Thomson. 1927 Rev. Econ. Statistics 9 189/1 The method is particularly useful where a mechanical Fourier analyzer is available. 1941 Pop. Sci. Monthly July 122 (caption) Measuring car noises with a sound-frequency analyzer. 1962 D. M. MacKay & M. E. Fisher Analogue Computing at Ultra-high Speed xiii. 171 The procedure for setting up a given equation on an analyser is not difficult. 1980 Electronic Design 4 Jan. 167/2 These programs are downloaded into the Microsystem Analyzer for debug and execution. 1992 Knowledge Engin. Rev. 7 354 A medical data analyser called RX..works from a database of patient information, and tries to find medical relations between the attributes. 1998 Wired Sept. 143/3 With your schematic as a guideline, use an oscilloscope, logic analyzer, logic probe, or multimeter to monitor the signals coming to and from various pins on the CPU. 2001 E. Schlosser Fast Food Nation v. 128 The Universal TA-XT2 Texture Analyzer..gauges the most important rheological properties of a food. c. Chemistry. A device or instrument used for analysis of the components of a substance, sample, etc.gas analyser: see the first element. ΚΠ 1881 Nature 26 May 94 Automatic methanometer, or automatic analyser of fire-damp. 1933 R. L. Streeter & L. C. Lichty Internal Combustion Engines (ed. 4) x. 313 It is customary to calibrate such an instrument on a single-cylinder engine and obtain a relation between measured air-fuel ratio and the CO + H2 indicated by the analyzer. 1985 C. S. Ward Anaesthetic Equipm. (ed. 2) xiv. 260/1 The composition of the gases at the outlet of the machine may be checked by an oxygen analyser. 2004 Sci. Total Environment 327 298/2 Total organic carbon..content of sediment samples was measured by CHN analyzer. d. A piece of computer software for performing grammatical or syntactic analysis (cf. analysis n. 4). ΚΠ 1958 Mod. Lang. Jrnl. 42 45/2 Text Analyzer. Work is progressing on a machine to scan and digest written texts.] 1962 Proc. National Conf. ACM, Digest Techn. Papers 114/1 Kuno, S., and Oettinger, A. G., ‘Multiple Path Syntactic Analyzer’. 1972 J. A. N. Lee Computer Semantics v. 273 The form of text which is generated by the analyzer, we shall name the parsed text, which may take the form of a syntactic tree or a phrase marked string. 1992 Lit. & Ling. Computing 7 115/2 The analyser includes over 7,000 elementary lemmata. 1996 Lit. & Ling. Computing 11 201/1 User-lexicons can be interactively enriched with new entries enabling the analyser to recognize all the possible flexions derived from them. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1610 |
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