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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 directionsplay

  Familiarity information: PLEOCHROISM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PLEOCHROISM (noun)


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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