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dichroism en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English dichroic Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English dichroism From dichroic + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The property of some crystals of transmitting different colors of light in different directions.
  2. (countable, uncountable) The property of some anisotropic materials of having different absorption coefficients for light polarized in different directions; circular dichroism.
    • In the close vicinity of a chiral nanostructure, the circular dichroism of a biomolecule could be greatly enhanced, due to the interaction with the local superchiral fields. 2016, S. Hamed Shams Mousavi, Sajanlal R. Panikkanvalappil, Mostafa A. El-Sayed, Ali A. Eftekhar, Ali Adibi, “Large Enhancement of Circular Dichroism Using an Embossed Chiral Metamaterial”, in arXiv:

Forms

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Deriveds

photodichroism

Translations (4)

ca dicroisme (the transmission of different colors in different directions) · pl dichroizm (the transmission of different colors in different directions) · fr dichroïsme (the transmission of different colors in different directions) · es dicroísmo (the transmission of different colors in different directions)