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analyzer

analyzer

13 4.2
A machine that tests substances or data to find what they contain
  • noun
  • /ˈænəˌlaɪzər/
  • Specialized
translation icon : analizador
  • Our laboratory recently acquired a blood analyzer to improve our testing efficiency.
  • gas analyzer
  • nitrate analyzer
  • portable analyzer

Most of them, the vast majority in fact, we're done with third party analyzers bought from other companies.

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Examples

  • The CEL-573 sound-level analyzer is an all-digital handheld analyzer with real-time sound-measurement capability.

    Academic text (1994)
  • And OK, so here you can see the gas analyzer has been fed into the exhaust right here.

  • You can take your body analyzer and you can...

  • And to do this, let's go to our text message analyzer to help.

  • The data show that the analyzer is capable of meeting these accuracy requirements.

    Academic text (1996)
  • It's a finger and palm print analyzer.

  • The three sensors have been incorporated into an analyzer designed to take advantage of their performance features.

    Academic text (1996)
  • To confirm the performance of the analyzer, a relative accuracy test was conducted at each site.

    Academic text (1996)
  • Now find the sample that goes with it, and insert it into the chromatography analyzer.

  • It is a new brain wave analyzer that I've been working on.

Compounds

9.9

A machine with moving parts that solves equations about how things change

pulse height analyzer
  • Specialized
8.2

A device that lets only electrical pulses above a set level pass

8.5

A device that tests concrete by sending and measuring very high sound pulses

How Sensitive

vernier caliper
  • Specialized
8.2
analyzer
  • Specialized
13 4.2

Surface Forms

analyzer singular
analysers plural
analyzers plural
analyst singular

Morphology

analyzer = analyze (transparent) = analyze + er

Productive agent/instrument nominalization from the verb 'analyze' using the regular suffix '-er'.

Etymology

Analyzer comes from the common verb analyze, from an old Greek word that means 'to break up' or 'loosen'. So an analyzer is a tool that 'breaks' a thing into parts to see what it is, which is why we use analyzers to study samples or data.