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PRONUNCIATION OF HALF-SILVERED

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HALF-SILVERED

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

WHAT DOES HALF-SILVERED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of half-silvered in the English dictionary

The definition of half-silvered in the dictionary is having an incomplete reflective coating, so that half the incident light is reflected and half transmitted: used in optical instruments and two-way mirrors.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HALF-SILVERED

half-rhyme
half-right
half-round chisel
half-round file
half-ruined
half-second
half-section
half-serious
half-seriously
half-shut
half-sister
half-size
half-sleeve
half-slip
half-smile
half-sole
half-staff
half-starved
half-step
half-tide

WORDS THAT END LIKE HALF-SILVERED

considered
covered
fevered
half-covered
hand-delivered
lily-livered
louvered
lovered
recovered
revered
rivered
snow-covered
tree-covered
unbeavered
uncovered
undelivered
undiscovered
unrecovered
unsevered
well-covered
white-livered

Synonyms and antonyms of half-silvered in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «half-silvered» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HALF-SILVERED

Find out the translation of half-silvered to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of half-silvered from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «half-silvered» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

半镀银
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

medio - plateado
570 millions of speakers

English

half-silvered
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आधा silvered
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

- بالفضة نصف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

наполовину посеребренный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

prateado - metade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অর্ধ-silvered
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

semi-argenté
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Setengah perak
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Halb versilbert
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ハーフ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

절반 의 실버
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Setengah perak
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nửa mạ bạc
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அரை வெள்ளிபூசப்பட்ட
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अर्ध्या-चांदीचे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Yarım gümüşlenir
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

metà - argentato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pół - srebrzone
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

наполовину посріблений
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

- jumătate argintată
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ημι-επαργυρωμένο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

half- silvered
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

halvförsilvrad
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

halv forsølvet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of half-silvered

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HALF-SILVERED»

The term «half-silvered» is used very little and occupies the 168.193 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HALF-SILVERED» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about half-silvered

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HALF-SILVERED»

Discover the use of half-silvered in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to half-silvered and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Synchronicity, Science and Soul-Making: Understanding ...
Two kinds of mirrors are used: a full-silvered mirror that reflects all light incident on it, just like the one that greets us every' morning in the bathroom; and a half- silvered mirror that reflects only half the light incident on it, letting the other half ...
Victor Mansfield, 1995
2
How Consciousness Commands Matter: The New Scientific Revolution
The same would be true for the beam that took the low path, if we deflected the high path beam before it reached half-silvered mirror 2. (This condition is not illustrated, since it is essentially the same as the "Particle Metaphor" Observation  ...
Larry Farwell, 1999
3
Nature Loves to Hide: Quantum Physics and the Nature of ...
Figure 11.1 shows an experimental set-up involving ordinary mirrors as well as half-silvered mirrors. (A half-silvered mirror is a piece of glass coated with a layer of silver so thin that it reflects half the light and transmits half the light, rendering ...
Shimon Malin, 2012
4
Goethe's Way of Science: A Phenomenology of Nature
But interference requires the particle to divide at the first half-silvered mirror, which we just showed never to happen with the single-photon source used! Is there some way the particle could, perhaps by "sensing" the intent of the experiment, ...
David Seamon, Arthur Zajonc, 1998
5
The Cosmic Sphere
In one version of the experiment, as shown in Figure 18.6, the experiment involves an apparatus consisting of a photon quon gun, one half-silvered mirror ( A), two regular mirrors (B and C), one delayed-choice detection screen (D), and two ...
Kip K. Sewell, 1999
6
The New Physics: For the Twenty-First Century
A half-silvered mirror, or a beam-splitter, as a simple quantum logic gate. Output 0 ... Let us try to reflect a single photon off a half-silvered mirror, i.e. a mirror that reflects exactly half of the light which impinges upon it, while the remaining half is  ...
Gordon Fraser, 2006
7
Automatic Common Carotid Artery and Internal Jugular Vein ...
Diagram of refraction of light through the half-silvered mirror 75 Figure 29. Schematic of the refraction of light through the mirror when viewing the skin through the mirror 78 Figure 30. Virtual image seen through the half-silvered mirror with the ...
David C. Wang, 2008
8
Gaia 2: Emergence : the New Science of Becoming
Light of the usual sort (not the single-particle kind) enters the interferometer through a half-silvered mirror, is split into two beams, and, after reflection from two fully silvered mirrors, recombines on a second half-silvered mirror. If one looks on a ...
William Irwin Thompson, 1991
9
Quantum Neural Computation
We might well have imagined that for a stream of photons impinging on our half- silvered mirror, half the photons would be reflected and half would be transmitted. Not so! Quantum theory tells us that, instead, each individual photon, as it ...
Vladimir G. Ivancevic, Tijana T. Ivancevic, 2010
10
Mechanics and Relativity
The apparatus essentially consists of a source of light from which a parallel beam of light is made to fall on a half-silvered mirror P inclined at 45° with the direction of incidence (see Fig. 8.3). One part of the beam moving in the longitudinal ...
Soni

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HALF-SILVERED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term half-silvered is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Asteroids and The Dawn of the Gamer Age
The monitor was slung low in the cabinet, out of the player's line of sight, and the images on it were projected upward onto a half-silvered mirror ... «Daily Beast, Nov 14»
2
Tech Museum reveals Body Metrics
Finally, the exhibit has digital reflection screens, which are large format displays behind half-silvered mirrors that allow visitors to see their ... «Spartan Daily, Nov 14»
3
UK component could enable next-generation wearable displays
Hall said other augmented technologies exist that use half-silvered mirrors or embedded optical components in thick lenses, and attempts to ... «The Engineer, Jul 14»
4
Where Am I? And What Time Is It?
The sextant is a more sophisticated and accurate bit of kit for navigation, using a mini-telescope and half-silvered mirrors, but operates on ... «The Awl, Apr 14»
5
How Things Work: Laser light produced through organized emission …
One of the mirrors at one end of the laser is “half-silvered,” which means that it reflects some light and allows some light to pass through. «CMU The Tartan Online, Apr 14»
6
The theatrical life of Derek Jarman
His visual ideas for a 1973 Festival Ballet piece, Silver Apples of the Moon, looked delicious: a stage hung with hundreds of half-silvered bulbs ... «The Guardian, Mar 14»
7
Physicists Eye Quantum-Gravity Interface
Before reaching the ball, the photon encounters a half-silvered mirror, which reflects half of the light that strikes it and allows the other half to ... «Scientific American, Nov 13»
8
Quantum weirdness: The battle for the basis of reality
AT FIRST, it looks like an ordinary mirror. But it's not. It is "half-silvered". Half of the light that hits it is reflected. The other half passes straight ... «New Scientist, Jul 13»
9
Using quantum mechanics to detect bombs
The mirrors in front of A, and in front of C and D, are half-silvered, which are often used in lasers. They bounce half the photons that hit them ... «io9, Jun 13»
10
The next big thing in tech: Augmented reality
... 1965 first described a head-mounted display with half-silvered mirrors that let the wearer see a virtual world superimposed on the real world. «CNET, Jun 13»

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