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Meaning of "optical activity" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF OPTICAL ACTIVITY

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OPTICAL ACTIVITY

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Optical activity is a noun.
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WHAT DOES OPTICAL ACTIVITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

optical activity

Optical rotation

Optical rotation is the turning of the plane of linearly polarized light about the direction of motion as the light travels through certain materials. It occurs in solutions of chiral molecules such as sucrose, solids with rotated crystal planes such as quartz, and spin-polarized gases of atoms or molecules. It is used in the sugar industry to measure syrup concentration, in optics to manipulate polarization, in chemistry to characterize substances in solution, and in optical mineralogy to help identify certain minerals in thin sections. It is being developed as a method to measure blood sugar concentration in diabetic people.

Definition of optical activity in the English dictionary

The definition of optical activity in the dictionary is the ability of substances that are optical isomers to rotate the plane of polarization of a transmitted beam of plane-polarized light.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OPTICAL ACTIVITY

optical
optical bench
optical brightener
optical character reader
optical character recognition
optical computer
optical crown
optical density
optical disc
optical disk
optical double star
optical fibre
optical flint
optical glass
optical illusion
optical isomer
optical isomerism
optical mark reading
optical mouse
optical pyrometer

WORDS THAT END LIKE OPTICAL ACTIVITY

activity
captivity
conductivity
connectivity
creativity
exclusivity
gravity
hyperactivity
inactivity
interactivity
nativity
negativity
objectivity
physical activity
positivity
productivity
reactivity
relativity
selectivity
sensitivity
special theory of relativity

Synonyms and antonyms of optical activity in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «optical activity» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OPTICAL ACTIVITY

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

Translator English - Chinese

光学活性
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

actividad óptica
570 millions of speakers

English

optical activity
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ऑप्टिकल गतिविधि
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

النشاط البصري
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

оптическая активность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

actividade óptica
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অপটিক্যাল কার্যকলাপ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

activité optique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Aktiviti optik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

optische Aktivität
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

光学活性
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

광 활동
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Aktivitas optik
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hoạt động quang học
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஆப்டிகல் செயல்பாடு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ऑप्टिकल क्रियाकलाप
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Optik Aktivite
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

attività ottica
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Aktywność optyczna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

оптична активність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

activitatea optică
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

οπτική δραστηριότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

optiese aktiwiteit
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

optisk aktivitet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

optisk aktivitet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of optical activity

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OPTICAL ACTIVITY» OVER TIME

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

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QUOTES WITH «OPTICAL ACTIVITY»

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Bridget Riley
Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OPTICAL ACTIVITY»

Discover the use of optical activity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to optical activity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Molecular Light Scattering and Optical Activity
Using classical and quantum methods with a strong emphasis on symmetry principles, this book, a reissue of the 2004 second edition, develops the theory of a variety of optical activity and related phenomena from the perspective of molecular ...
Laurence D. Barron, 2004
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Vibrational Optical Activity: Principles and Applications
This unique book stands as the only comprehensive introduction to vibrational optical activity (VOA) and is the first single book that serves as a complete reference for this relatively new, but increasingly important area of molecular ...
Laurence A. Nafie, 2011
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Molecular Optical Activity and the Chiral Discriminations
Good,No Highlights,No Markup,all pages are intact, Slight Shelfwear,may have the corners slightly dented, may have slight color changes/slightly damaged spine.
Stephen Finney Mason, 1982
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Nonresonant Surface Enhanced Raman Optical Activity
Nanoshells (NS) and nanoparticles (NP) are tunable plasmonic particles that can be precisely engineered for specific applications including surface enhanced spectroscopies.
Bruce E. Brinson, 2009
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Selected Papers on Natural Optical Activity
SPIE Milestones are collections of seminal papers from the world literature covering important discoveries and developments in optics and photonics.
Akhlesh Lakhtakia, 1990
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Vibrational Spectra: Principles and Applications with ...
This book originated out of a desire to combine topics on vibrational absorption, Raman scattering, vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) and Raman optical activity (VROA) into one source.
P.L. Polavarapu, 1998
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The Optical Activity of Liquids and Gases
THE OPTICAL ACTIVITY OF'LIQUIDS AND GASES. BY FRANK GRAY. HE natural activity of isotropic substances has been an interesting subject both to the chemist and to the physicist. Each has attacked the problem according to his own  ...
Frank Gray, 1916
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Theoretical Simulations of Optical Rotation and Raman ...
arrangement of atoms in a manner that is not superimposable on their mirror image, a necessary condition for optical activity. Subsequently, in 1874 van't Hoff showed that the tetrahedral geometry of a carbon atom attached to four different ...
Parag Mukhopadhyay, 2008
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On the Effects of Certain Inactive Substances on the Optical ...
ON THE EFFECTS OF CERTAIN INACTIVE SUBSTANCES ON THE OPTICAL ACTIVITY OF PIHENE By CHARLES BALDWIN GATES A Thesis submitted for the Degree of MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN 1906 ...
Charles Baldwin Gates, 1906
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Principles of Polymer Chemistry
Optical Activity in Polymers Optical activity in biopolymers has been known and studied well before this phenomenon was observed in synthetic polymers. Homopoly merization of vinyl monomers does not result in structures with asymmetric ...
A. Ravve, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OPTICAL ACTIVITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term optical activity is used in the context of the following news items.
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Selective deposition technique controls nanowire length
"The rich optical activity of these bimetallic nanowires provides new opportunities in an array of different fields," Liz-Marzán told ... «nanotechweb.org, Jul 15»
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Nanoparticles naturally present left- and right-handed versions
A key indicator of chiral environment is called optical activity: depending on the chiral form of a nanocrystal, it can rotate the plane of polarized ... «Phys.Org, Jun 15»
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Long range chirality transfer observed
Raman optical activity (ROA) spectroscopy uses the fact that certain peaks and troughs in the absorption of circularly polarised light by ... «Royal Society of Chemistry, Jun 15»
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Nature Communications: ultrasensitive magnetoplasmonic sensors
... support localized plasmons, and, at the same time, show a sizeable magneto-optical activity under the application of external magnetic fields. «Nanotechnology News, Jun 15»
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Ultrasensitive magnetoplasmonic sensors with nano-antennas
... support localized plasmons, and, at the same time, show a sizeable magneto-optical activity under the application of external magnetic fields. «Nanowerk, Jun 15»
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Controlling light with light using coherent metadevices: all-optical …
Coherent control of birefringence and optical activity. Appl Phys Lett 2014; 105: 011906. | Article | CAS |; Shi JH, Fang X, Rogers ETF, Plum E, ... «Nature.com, May 15»
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Molecules that amaze us
... to read through an introduction to optical activity, but it might make the concept difficult for others to understand. For chemistry-savvy readers, ... «Royal Society of Chemistry, May 15»
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Exposing breast cancer using nanoscale polymers
A*STAR researchers have now discovered a way to improve the targeting efficacy and optical activity of breast-cancer-specific contrast agents ... «Phys.Org, May 15»
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Magnetic Nanoparticle Arrays Combine Plasmonics And Magneto …
So far, optical activity in ferromagnetic materials has been limited by their high resistance, which makes it impossible to observe the impressive ... «Tech Fragments, May 15»
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Plasmonic Breakthrough Could Lead To More Sensitive Optical …
In the past, optical activity in ferromagnetic materials was limited to high resistance, making it almost impossible to observe plasmon ... «Headlines & Global News, May 15»

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