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PLEOCHROISM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pleochroism mean?
• PLEOCHROISM (noun)
The noun PLEOCHROISM has 1 sense:
1. the phenomenon of different colors appearing when certain crystals are viewed from different directions
Familiarity information: PLEOCHROISM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The phenomenon of different colors appearing when certain crystals are viewed from different directions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("pleochroism" is a kind of...):
optical phenomenon (a physical phenomenon related to or involving light)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pleochroism"):
dichroism (pleochroism of a crystal so that it exhibits two different colors when viewed from two different directions)
trichroism (pleochroism of a crystal so that it exhibits three different colors when viewed from three different directions)
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