Term: nicol prism: optical device that produces plane-polarized light
Candidate hypernym: object: a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow → 1
Candidate hypernym: well-wishing: an expression of good will from one person to another → 0
Candidate hypernym: heavyweight: a professional boxer who weighs more than 190 pounds → 0
Candidate hypernym: mohs scale: a scale of hardness of solids; talc is 0 and diamond is 10; ordering is determined by which substance can scratch another substance → 0
Candidate hypernym: german cockroach: small light-brown cockroach brought to United States from Europe; a common household pest → 0
Candidate hypernym: legitimacy: lawfulness by virtue of being authorized or in accordance with law → 0
Candidate hypernym: qurush: 20 qurush equal 1 riyal in Saudi Arabia → 0
Candidate hypernym: national debt ceiling: a limit set by Congress beyond which the national debt cannot rise; periodically raised by Congress → 0
Candidate hypernym: sound ranging: locating a source of sound (as an enemy gun) by measurements of the time the sound arrives at microphones in known positions → 0
Candidate hypernym: bush hibiscus: southern and western Australian shrub with unlobed or shallowly lobed toothed leaves and purple flowers; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus → 0
Candidate hypernym: mitogen: an agent that triggers mitosis → 0