English Explanatory Dictionary

photoelasticity

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. a technique for studying and measuring the stresses and strains in an object by means of mechanical birefringence

Word forms

photoelasticity photoelasticities

Etymology

From photo- + elasticity.

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