birefringence

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

The splitting of a ray of light into two parallel rays of perpendicular polarization by passage through an optically anisotropic medium; the property of a material that light passing through it is so split.

/baɪɹɪˈfɹɪnd͡ʒəns/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Neøn-birefringence.wav

birefringence birefringences

From bi- + refringence.

birefraction birefractivity double refraction

birefringent monorefringence refringence trirefringence birefraction birefractive birefractivity dextrorotation laevorotation levorotation

nonbirefringence

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