birefringence
/baɪrɪˈfrɪnd͡ʒəns/
构词拆解
词源说明
From bi- + refringence.
释义
名词noun
- 1(physics) 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.