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PRONUNCIATION OF BIREFRINGENT

birefringent  [ˌbaɪrɪˈfrɪndʒənt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BIREFRINGENT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Birefringent is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES BIREFRINGENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

birefringent

Birefringence

Birefringence is the optical property of a material having a refractive index that depends on the polarization and propagation direction of light. These optically anisotropic materials are said to be birefringent. The birefringence is often quantified as the maximum difference between refractive indices exhibited by the material. Crystals with asymmetric crystal structures are often birefringent, as well as plastics under mechanical stress. Birefringence is responsible for the phenomenon of double refraction whereby a ray of light, when incident upon a birefringent material, is split by polarization into two rays taking slightly different paths. This effect was first described by the Danish scientist Rasmus Bartholin in 1669, who observed it in calcite, a crystal having one of the strongest birefringences. However it was not until the 19th century that Augustin-Jean Fresnel described the phenomenon in terms of polarization, understanding light as a wave with field components in transverse polarizations.

Definition of birefringent in the English dictionary

The definition of birefringent in the dictionary is of or relating to double refraction.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BIREFRINGENT


agent
ˈeɪdʒənt
argent
ˈɑːdʒənt
astringent
əˈstrɪndʒənt
contingent
kənˈtɪndʒənt
cotangent
kəʊˈtændʒənt
divergent
daɪˈvɜːdʒənt
intelligent
ɪnˈtɛlɪdʒənt
noncontingent
ˌnɒnkənˈtɪndʒənt
pageant
ˈpædʒənt
plangent
ˈplændʒənt
pungent
ˈpʌndʒənt
refringent
rɪˈfrɪndʒənt
regent
ˈriːdʒənt
restringent
rɪˈstrɪndʒənt
retromingent
ˌrɛtrəʊˈmɪndʒənt
ringent
ˈrɪndʒənt
stringent
ˈstrɪndʒənt
subtangent
sʌbˈtændʒənt
tangent
ˈtændʒənt
urgent
ˈɜːdʒənt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BIREFRINGENT

birds of a feather
birds´ eggs
birds´-nesting
birdseed
birdshot
birdsong
birdwatch
birdwatching
birdwing
birefringence
bireme
Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev
biretta
Birgitta
biriani
birk
Birkbeck
birken
Birkenhead
birkie

WORDS THAT END LIKE BIREFRINGENT

arctangent
constringent
convergent
detergent
diligent
dirigent
emergent
estate agent
free agent
gent
hyperbolic cotangent
indulgent
insurance agent
insurgent
negligent
on a tangent
reagent
real-estate agent
Sargent
travel agent

Synonyms and antonyms of birefringent in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «birefringent» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BIREFRINGENT

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Translator English - Chinese

双折射
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

birrefringente
570 millions of speakers

English

birefringent
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

birefringent
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ثنائية الانكسار
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

двулучепреломляющей
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

birefringent
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Translator English - Bengali

birefringent
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

biréfringent
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Birefringent
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

doppelbrechenden
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

複屈折の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

복굴절
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Birefringent
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

lưỡng chiết
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இருபக்க சிதறல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बिअर फ्रिंगेंट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çiftkırılan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

birifrangente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dwójłomny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

двулучепреломляющего
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

birefringent
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

birefringent
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dubbelbrekende
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dubbelbrytande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

birefringent
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of birefringent

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BIREFRINGENT»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BIREFRINGENT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about birefringent

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BIREFRINGENT»

Discover the use of birefringent in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to birefringent and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Birefringent Thin Films and Polarizing Elements
Birefringent niters are used in a variety of applications and scientific disciplines. As examples, the Lyot-Ohman filter is used in astronomy and another series-of- plates filter is used as an intracavity tuning device for dye lasers. Birefringent filters ...
Ian J. Hodgkinson, Qi hong Wu, 1997
2
Handbook of Biological Confocal Microscopy
Birefringent properties in the secondary wall thickenings in the endothelium cells of maize anther. 400 500 600 700 B Wavelength nm 400 500 600. salicylate (r| = 1.52), xylene (r| = 1.5055), ortoludine (r\ = 1.4961) (Stelly et al, 1984; Cheng et ...
James Pawley, 2006
3
Light and Video Microscopy
Many birefringent specimens are not linear, but spherical or cylindrical, and thus may show both additive and subtractive colors in different regions of the specimen. In these cases, it is helpful to think of the Cartesian coordinate system as ...
Randy O. Wayne, 2013
4
NONLINEAR POLARIZATION EFFECTS IN BIREFRINGENT OPTICAL FIBER ...
polarization and the fiber birefringence play a key role.
SANDRA FREEDMAN FELDMAN, 1991
5
Mitosis and Meiosis: Mitosis and Meiosis
parallel MTs or the birefringent crystal plate of the compensator, the two waves have a different relative phase compared to when they entered the material. The retardance, expressed as distance, is the product between the difference in ...
‎1998
6
Coherent Optical Fiber Communications
1 1) suggests that in a circularly birefringent fiber, the group-delay difference is essentially zero because 5f$ is irrelevant to the lightwave frequency in the first- order approximation. The group-delay difference given in Eq. (9.10) expresses a  ...
T. Okoshi, K. Kikuchi, 1988
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Optical Methods of Measurement: Wholefield Techniques, ...
2.5.5 POLARIZATION INTERFEROMETERS These are basically used to study birefringent specimens. A polarizer is used to polarize the incident collimated beam, which passes through a birefringent material. The polarized beam then splits ...
Rajpal Sirohi, 2009
8
Principles of Lasers
A third wavelength-selective element, which is becoming increasingly popular in the visible or near IR spectral region, makes use of a birefringent filter inserted within the laser cavity. The filter simply consists of a plate of a suitable birefringent ...
Orazio Svelto, 2010
9
Smectic a Filled Birefringent Elements and Fast Switching ...
We describe the application of smectic A (SmA) liquid crystals for beam deflection.
Oleg Pishnyak, Nasa Technical Reports Server (Ntrs), Et Al, 2013
10
Light and Electron Microscopy
Therefore, during rotation with respect to crossed polarizers, four positions of extinction and four of maximum brightness are shown by birefringent specimens. Some exceptions may be summarized: (1) A birefringent specimen viewed along its ...
Elizabeth M. Slayter, Henry S. Slayter, 1992

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BIREFRINGENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term birefringent is used in the context of the following news items.
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Thoracic cord compression due to ligamentum flavum gouty tophus …
This may be a reason why in our case there were no birefringent crystals under polarized light. It is important that the specimen should be ... «Nature.com, Jun 15»
2
Giant photonic spin Hall effect in momentum space in a structured …
Typically, when a light beam normally passes through a birefringent waveplate, an additional phase that is dependent only on the optical axis ... «Nature.com, May 15»
3
Tunable and switchable polarization rotation with non-reciprocal …
Rep Prog Phys 2004; 67: 717–754. | Article | ISI |; Shirasaki M, Asama K. Compact optical isolator for fibers using birefringent wedges. Appl Opt ... «Nature.com, May 15»
4
Canon T6 sensor flecks - apparently minimal impact on images …
Unusual birefringent materials produce very slightly shifted copies of the light passing through them. Two filters are oriented with their optical ... «imaging resource, May 15»
5
Cancelled anti-aliasing: Advanced technology guide
Another optical layer, a quarter-wave plate, mixes up the polarisation again, so a second birefringent filter, perpendicular to the first, spreads ... «What Digital Camera, Apr 15»
6
Optical Design Software
The user then assigns to each of these surfaces optical properties such as dispersive homogeneous, gradient or birefringent refractive indices and diffraction ... «Photonics.com, Feb 15»
7
Liquid crystalline polymer dispersed liquid crystals
(Nanowerk Spotlight) Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals (PDLCs)1 are micrometer-sized birefringent Liquid Crystal (LC)2 domains dispersed ... «Nanowerk, Jan 15»
8
STED Microscopy Made Easy
The key component of the easySTED approach is a birefringent segmented phase plate that does not affect the excitation laser, but gradually changes the ... «Photonics.com, Dec 14»
9
Point of Service Testing May Improve Accuracy and Reduce Future …
... using polarizing light microscopy (PLM) depends upon a skilled observer's identifying negatively and/or positively birefringent crystals. «Newswise, Nov 14»
10
Hyperbolic metamaterials beyond simple multilayers
Figure 1. (a) Dispersion relation for a common birefringent medium (a bounded ellipsoid allowing only a limited set of propagating wave vectors ... «SPIE Newsroom, Oct 14»

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