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PRONUNCIATION OF EXTRAORDINARY RAY

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EXTRAORDINARY RAY

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Extraordinary ray is a noun.
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WHAT DOES EXTRAORDINARY RAY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

extraordinary ray

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.

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WORDS THAT END LIKE EXTRAORDINARY RAY

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Synonyms and antonyms of extraordinary ray in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «extraordinary ray» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

非寻常光
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

rayo extraordinario
570 millions of speakers

English

extraordinary ray
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

असाधारण रे
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

الأشعة فوق العادة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

необыкновенный луч
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

raio extraordinário
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অসাধারণ রে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

rayon extraordinaire
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sinar yang luar biasa
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

außerordentlichen Strahl
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

異常光線
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

이상 광
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ray luar biasa
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tia bất thường
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அசாதாரண ரே
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विलक्षण किरण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Olağanüstü ışın
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

straordinaria ray
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

promień nadzwyczajny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

незвичайний промінь
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ray extraordinar
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

έκτακτη ray
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

buitengewone straal
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

extraordinärt ray
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

ekstraordinære ray
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EXTRAORDINARY RAY»

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EXTRAORDINARY RAY»

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Introduction to Light: The Physics of Light, Vision, and Color
The ray passing straight through is called the ordinary ray because it seems to follow the usual law of refraction, while the other is called the extraordinary ray. If the crystal is rotated about an axis parallel to the incident ray, the extraordinary ray ...
Gary Waldman, 2002
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The elements of physics
section of a crystal, and the two being similarly situated the incident ray s i gives rise to the emergent pencil o o, which is the ordinary ray refracted in the ordinary manner, and the emergent pencil E e, which is the extraordinary ray refracted in ...
Thomas Webster, 1837
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Encyclopedia of Optical Engineering
3 Diagram of the Nicol prism made from calcite. extraordinary ray. Canada balsam has an index of refraction about midway between the index of refraction of the ordinary and the extraordinary rays (calcite crystal: n0 = 1.66 and ne = 1 . 49; ...
Ronald G. Driggers, 2003
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Properties of Materials : Anisotropy, Symmetry, Structure: ...
The ray direction for the ordinary wave is always parallel to the wave normal but the extraordinary ray is not. Quartz has a much smaller birefringence than calcite. The maximum divergence in quartz is only 20'. For uniaxial crystals like calcite ...
Robert E. Newnham, 2004
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Optics
Thus the ordinary ray obeys Snell's laws but the extraordinary ray does not. We will now use Fermat's principle to study the refraction of a ray when it is incident from an iso- tropic medium into an anisotropic medium — both media are assumed ...
Ajoy Chatak, 2009
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The proceedings of the Optical convention: held at the ...
It must be remembered that the value given for the refractive index of the extraordinary ray is its minimum value, which it has for rays that cross the optic axis at right angles. If, at the region of the reflecting plane where the extraordinary ray is ...
‎1905
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Engineering Physics
The former is referred to as the ordinary ray and the latter as the extraordinary ray . The velocity of the ordinary ray is the same in all directions whereas the velocity of the extraordinary ray is different in different directions; a substance which ...
P. Yadav, 2006
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A Text Book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on ...
Wave-surface of the extraordinary ray. — For the extraordinary ray the law of simple refraction does not hold good. If experiments be made upon any uniaxial crystal, it will be found that the two rays are most separated when (1) the light falls  ...
Edward Salisbury Dana, 1884
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Principles of physics, or Natural philosophy: designed for ...
The index of refraction for the extraordinary ray, when parallel to the axis, is the same as that of the ordinary ray, and differs most from the ordinary ray when it passes through the crystal at right angles with the axis. The index of refraction for the ...
Benjamin Silliman, 1870
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Polarized Light in Liquid Crystals and Polymers
Toralf Scharf. k surface k surface \ extraordinary \ Ray direction ordinary Ray direction (b) 'y ordinary Ray extraordinary direction (C) Ray direction Figure 3.17 Geometrical construction of rays propagating through an interface between ...
Toralf Scharf, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EXTRAORDINARY RAY»

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Could Tribal Cannibalism Offer the Key to Treating Deadly Diseases?
That's a long way off, but it's an extraordinary ray of hope in an often-bleak field. Collinge theorizes that this genetic variation is a direct result of ... «GOOD Magazine, Jun 15»
2
Roy Keane: Ask me in a couple of weeks about FIFA, I'm focused on …
Remarkably, Delaney's extraordinary Ray D'arcy Show interview on Thursday has succeeded in completely overshadowing the build-up to a ... «Irish Independent, Jun 15»
3
Book review: White Hunger by Aki Ollikainen
... be moved by a prize-winning Finnish novella… 136 pages of death and despair shot through with an extraordinary ray of redeeming light that ... «Blackpool Gazette, Mar 15»
4
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... Join steampunk enthusiast, cosplayers, creative thinkers, and maybe a mad scientist or two as you learn to make an extraordinary ray gun. «baltimoregaylife, Aug 14»
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Changing the State of Polarization using Retarders
... the thickness of the plate, n0 represents the refractive index for the ordinary ray, and ne denotes the refractive index for the extraordinary ray. «AZoOptics.com, Apr 14»
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“I'm incredibly grateful to have been a part of the extraordinary Ray Donovan family,” Zuriff said in a statement. “Out of respect for my colleagues ... «Deadline.com, Dec 13»
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Bard's epic tale a study of addiction given new makeover by RSC
He's such an extraordinary ray of sunshine. The level of care taken of the actors and crew is incredible. It's really nice to see how human the ... «Birmingham Post, Nov 13»
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Power, politics and an epic love story
He's such an extraordinary ray of sunshine. The level of care taken of the actors and crew is incredible. It's really nice to see how human the ... «Coventry Telegraph, Nov 13»
9
A Prism That Shoots Concentrated Beams of Rainbows
This split-off ray is called the "extraordinary ray," and it shoots out from the crystal at an angle. The extraordinary ray is the rainbow we see in ... «io9, Jan 13»
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Vikings used crystals to discover new world
By splitting light into an ordinary and an extraordinary ray, they were able to work out where the sun was and navigate through sunlit fog. «Metro, Jan 11»

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