LCR meter vs Impedance Analyzer

[electrolust]

What's the difference?  Appears to me to be the same thing, except that an LCR meter is optimized for single point measurements (so perhaps more accurate) whereas the Analyzer is optimized for frequency sweeping (less accurate, but much faster to characterize over the frequencies of interest).

[metrologist]

It probably depends on which instruments you are comparing. From the hip, I'd say an LCR meter is typically a scalar device and an analyzer is vector.

[electrolust]

Comparing something like an HP 4284a vs a 4192a.  Not something like a handheld LCR meter, and not an RF impedance analyzer.