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Meaning of "polychroism" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF POLYCHROISM

polychroism  [ˌpɒlɪˈkrəʊɪzəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POLYCHROISM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Polychroism is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES POLYCHROISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of polychroism in the English dictionary

The definition of polychroism in the dictionary is the ability of a crystal to absorb different wavelengths of light and thus to display multiple colours.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH POLYCHROISM


albinoism
ælˈbiːnəʊɪzəm
Averroism
ˌævəˈrəʊɪzəm
Castroism
ˈkæstrəʊɪzəm
criticism
ˈkrɪtɪˌsɪzəm
dodoism
ˈdəʊdəʊɪzəm
epizoism
ˌɛpɪˈzəʊɪzəm
highbrowism
ˈhaɪˌbraʊɪzəm
hoboism
ˈhəʊbəʊɪzəm
hylozoism
ˌhaɪləˈzəʊɪzəm
jim-crowism
ˌdʒɪmˈkrəʊɪzəm
Maoism
ˈmaʊɪzəm
mechanism
ˈmɛkəˌnɪzəm
middlebrowism
ˈmɪdəlˌbraʊɪzəm
Moism
ˈməʊɪzəm
Negroism
ˈniːɡrəʊɪzəm
panegoism
pænˈɛɡəʊɪzəm
Shintoism
ˈʃɪntəʊɪzəm
Taoism
ˈtaʊɪzəm
tourism
ˈtʊərɪzəm
zoism
ˈzəʊɪzəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POLYCHROISM

polychaete
polychaetous
polychasia
polychasium
polychete
polychlorinated
polychlorinated biphenyl
polychloroprene
polychotomous
polychotomy
polychrest
polychroic
polychromatic
polychromatism
polychrome
polychromic
polychromous
polychromy
polycistronic
polyclinic

WORDS THAT END LIKE POLYCHROISM

dichroism
echoism
egoism
Foism
heroism
hidalgoism
Hindooism
hoodooism
locoism
Lysenkoism
machoism
me-tooism
pleochroism
Ramboism
Titoism
trichroism
voodooism
xanthochroism
yahooism

Synonyms and antonyms of polychroism in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «polychroism» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POLYCHROISM

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

Translator English - Chinese

多色
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

polychroism
570 millions of speakers

English

polychroism
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

polychroism
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تعدد التلاون
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

polychroism
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

polychroism
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

polychroism
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

polychroism
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Polychroism
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

polychroism
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

多色性
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

polychroism
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Polychroism
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

polychroism
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

polychroism
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पोलिक्रायझम
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

polychroism
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

polychroism
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

polychroism
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

polychroism
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

polychroism
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

polychroism
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

polychroism
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

polychroism
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

polychroism
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of polychroism

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POLYCHROISM»

The term «polychroism» is normally little used and occupies the 143.504 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «POLYCHROISM» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «polychroism» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «polychroism» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POLYCHROISM»

Discover the use of polychroism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to polychroism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The American Journal of Science and Arts
SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. I. Chemistry and Physics. 1. Artificial production of polychroism in crystallized substa?ices. — Senarmont has communicated lo the Academy of Sciences the results of experiments upon this subject which are very  ...
‎1854
2
The American journal of science
... chemically inert and capable of being spontaneously eliminated by successive solutions and crystallizations in pure water, may nevertheless communicate to it in the highest degree the properties of polychroism, and an energy of absorbing ...
‎1854
3
The Philosophical Magazine: A Journal of Theoretical, ...
EXPERIMENTS ON THE ARTIFICIAL PRODUCTION OF POLYCHROISM IN CRYSTALLIZED SUBSTANCES. BY M. DE SENARMONT. In some researches upon crystallization which the author has pursued for several years, he has been led ...
‎1854
4
Manual of Mineralogy: Including Observations on Mines, ...
Polychroism, 57. Play of colors, 57. Plutonic rocks. Granite and allied crystalline rocks. Polyhedral. [Gr. polus, many, and hedra face.) Having many sides. Polymorphism, 44. Porous. Having minute vacuities, visible or invisible to the naked eye ...
James Dwight Dana, 1868
5
The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and ...
The crystals thus acquired a colour like that of chrome-alum, and a sufficiently distinct polychroism to exhibit the following phsenomena :— 1. Natural white light produces by transmission under certain incidences a red, and under others a blue ...
‎1854
6
Philosophical Magazine
The crystals thus acquired a colour like that of chrome-alum, and a sufliciently distinct polychroism to exhibit the following phaenomena :— 1. Natural white light produces by transmission under certain incidences a red, and under others a blue ...
‎1854
7
A Manual of Mineralogy
This is the general principle at the basis of polychroism. ' What is a play of colors? change of colors? opalescence'l iridescence'l tarnish? dichroism and polychroism'l Mention examples of this last property ; also the law relating to it. 1' *t From ...
James D. Dana, A.M., 1852
8
Principles of Optics: Electromagnetic Theory of Propagation, ...
This effect is called polychroism. The dependence of polarization of the scattered light on wavelength - known as dispersion of polarization - affords a very precise test of the theory.* 14.5.3 Total scattering and extinction (a) Some general ...
Max Born, Emil Wolf, 1999
9
The American Journal of Science
SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCEI. CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS. l. Artificial production of polychroism in crystallized substances.SENARMONT has communicated to the Academy of Sciences the results of experiments upon this subject which are ...
‎1854
10
Journal of the Chemical Society
Sulphur, preparation of (Riesenfzld), A., ii, 40. valency of (Lecher and Simon), A., i, 414, 860 ; (Lecher and Gobbel), A., i, 853. colloidal, polychroism of (Atjerbach), A., ii, 40. chromogenetie properties of (Davis and Rixon), A., ii, 530. solubility of, ...
‎1921

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« EDUCALINGO. Polychroism [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/polychroism>. May 2024 ».
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