• Birefringence

    Pronunciation

    • IPA: /baɪrɪˈfrɪndÊ’É™ns/

    Full definition of birefringence

    Noun

    birefringence

    (plural birefringences)
    1. (physics) the splitting of a ray of light into two parallel rays of perpendicular polarization by passage through an optically anisotropic medium
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