dichroism : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: dichroism	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for dichroism
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dichroism n pleochroism of a crystal so that it exhibits two different colors when viewed from two different directions
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dichroism \Di"chro*ism\, n. [Gr. [?] two-colored; di- = di`s- twice + [?] color.] (Opt.) The property of presenting different colors by transmitted light, when viewed in two different directions, the colors being unlike in the direction of unlike or unequal axes.