English words for '(physics) A form of diffraction grating optimized for high orders of diffraction'
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noun
- (physics) The diffraction pattern so obtained.
- (physics) The scattering of X-rays by the regular lattice of atoms or molecules in a crystal.
- (analytical chemistry) The technique of using such patterns to determine that geometry of a crystal, or the arrangements of atoms in a molecule; X-ray crystallography.
- the scattering of X rays by the atoms of a crystal; the diffraction pattern shows structure of the crystal
noun
- a diffraction grating consisting of a pile of plates of equal thickness arranged stepwise with a constant offset
- status in a society or organization
- a body of troops arranged in a line
- A level or rank in an organization, profession, or society.
- (military) A formation of troops, ships, aircraft, etc., in diagonal parallel rows.
- (cycling) A line of riders seeking maximum drafting in a crosswind, resulting in a diagonal line across the road.
adj
verb
noun
- (optometry) Diffraction.
- (grammar, uncountable) The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.
- (countable) An affix representing a given variation.
- A change in pitch or tone of voice.
- (countable) Any specific type of morphological variation, which applies to a given class of terms.
- (countable) Any specific morphological form of a particular term, such as the principal parts for any given stem; any of the declined or conjugated forms that constitute its declension or conjugation.
- (mathematics) A change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave.
- A turning away from a straight course.
- deviation from a straight or normal course
- a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function
- the patterns of stress and intonation in a language
- a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified
adj
name
- (physics) Initialism of Stanford Large Detector.
- (international politics) Initialism of Shangri-La Dialogue.
- (UK politics) Initialism of Social and Liberal Democrats, the former name of the Liberal Democrats.
- (UK, law) Initialism of Statute Law Database; the former name for legislation.gov.uk.
- (UK politics) Initialism of Scottish Liberal Democrats.
noun
- (Internet) Initialism of second-level domain.
- (photography) Initialism of single lens digital.
- (graphics) Initialism of single-line diagram.
- (graphics) Initialism of straight-line diagram.
- (graphics) Initialism of Styled Layer Descriptor.
- (meteorology, aviation) Initialism of supercooled large droplet.
- (uncountable, accounting) Initialism of straight-line depreciation.
- (electronics) Initialism of semiconductor laser diode.
- (physics) Initialism of superluminescent diode.
noun
- optical glass of low dispersion and low refractive index
- a glass blown into a globe which is later flattened and spun to form a disk
- (optics) A variety of glass used in lenses and other optical components due to its low refractive index and dispersion. Originally crown glass was made from alkali-lime silicates with approximately 10% potassium oxide, but similar properties may be attained with other recipes.
- An early type of window glass made by blowing glass into a hollow globe (crown) and then flattening it on a punty, reheating and spinning out into a flat disk by centrifugal force.
noun
- An optical system of close equidistant and parallel lines or bars, especially lines ruled on a polished surface, used for producing spectra by diffraction.
- The sound made by something that grates against something else.
- (nautical, in the plural) The strong wooden lattice used to cover a hatch, admitting light and air; also, a movable lattice used for the flooring of boats.
- The loose material that comes from something being grated.
- A barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air.
- A frame of iron bars to hold a fire.
- a frame of iron bars to hold a fire
- a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air
- optical device consisting of a surface with many parallel grooves in it; disperses a beam of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into its wavelengths to produce its spectrum
adj
verb
noun
name
noun
- An arrangement of two lenses for a microscope, designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion, thus rendering the image of an object more clear and distinct.
- (quantum mechanics) A quantum state of a system with a spin of ½, such that there are two allowed values of the spin component, −½ and +½.
- (radio) Dipole antenna.
- (lapidary) An imitation gem made of two pieces of glass or crystal with a layer of color between them.
- (linguistics) One of two or more different words in a language derived from the same etymological root but having different phonological forms (e.g., toucher and toquer in French or shade and shadow in English). See also Appendix:Glossary#doublet.
- (printing, US) A word or phrase set a second time by mistake.
- (computing) A word (or rather, a halfword) consisting of two bytes.
- (botany) A very small flowering plant, Dimeresia howellii.
- A pair of two similar or equal things; couple.
- Either of two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost.
- (literature) In textual criticism, two different narrative accounts of the same actual event.
- (historical) A man’s waistcoat.
- A man’s close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves, worn by European men from the 1400s to the 1600s.
- A word ladder puzzle.
- a man's close-fitting jacket; worn during the Renaissance
verb
- determine the refracting power of (a lens)
- subject to refraction
- (transitive, physics) Of a medium, substance, object, etc.: to deflect the course of (light rays), esp. when they enter the medium, etc., at an oblique angle; to cause refraction of (light, other electromagnetic radiation, or sound or other wave phenomena).
- (transitive, optics) To cause (light) to change direction as a result of entering a different medium.
- (transitive, ophthalmology) To measure, and often also to correct with lenses, the refractive error of (an eye) or the eyes of (a person).
- (transitive, figurative) To mediate; to alter; to distort.
noun
- The dioptre adjustment mechanism of a pair of binoculars or of a camera viewfinder.
- A unit of measure of the power of a lens or mirror, equal to the reciprocal of its focal length in meters. Myopia is diagnosed and measured in diopters.
- a unit of measurement of the refractive power of a lens which is equal to the reciprocal of the focal length measured in meters; used by oculists
noun
adj
intj
verb
- (physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light, etc., according to wavelength; to refract.
- (transitive, intransitive) To disseminate.
- (transitive, intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate.
- (transitive, intransitive) To scatter in different directions.
- (transitive, intransitive) To distribute throughout.
- cause to become widely known
- cause to separate
- to cause to separate and go in different directions
- move away from each other
- separate (light) into spectral rays
- distribute loosely
adj
noun
- in a doubly refracting crystal, the line in the direction of which no double refraction occurs
- a line that passes through the center of curvature of a lens so that light is neither reflected nor refracted
- (crystallography, mineralogy) The direction in which a ray of light passing through a crystal does not suffer double refraction.
- The optical axis.
noun
- (physics) An optical technique of visualizing patterns of fluid flow by using differences in refractive index
- A shadow-picture; a radiograph or X-ray photograph; a sciagram.
- a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays)
verb
noun
- (physics) The diffraction pattern so obtained.
- (physics) The scattering of X-rays by the regular lattice of atoms or molecules in a crystal.
- (analytical chemistry) The technique of using such patterns to determine that geometry of a crystal, or the arrangements of atoms in a molecule; X-ray crystallography.
- the scattering of X rays by the atoms of a crystal; the diffraction pattern shows structure of the crystal
noun
- a diffraction grating consisting of a pile of plates of equal thickness arranged stepwise with a constant offset
- status in a society or organization
- a body of troops arranged in a line
- A level or rank in an organization, profession, or society.
- (military) A formation of troops, ships, aircraft, etc., in diagonal parallel rows.
- (cycling) A line of riders seeking maximum drafting in a crosswind, resulting in a diagonal line across the road.
adj
verb
noun
- (optometry) Diffraction.
- (grammar, uncountable) The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.
- (countable) An affix representing a given variation.
- A change in pitch or tone of voice.
- (countable) Any specific type of morphological variation, which applies to a given class of terms.
- (countable) Any specific morphological form of a particular term, such as the principal parts for any given stem; any of the declined or conjugated forms that constitute its declension or conjugation.
- (mathematics) A change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave.
- A turning away from a straight course.
- deviation from a straight or normal course
- a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function
- the patterns of stress and intonation in a language
- a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified
noun
- optical glass of low dispersion and low refractive index
- a glass blown into a globe which is later flattened and spun to form a disk
- (optics) A variety of glass used in lenses and other optical components due to its low refractive index and dispersion. Originally crown glass was made from alkali-lime silicates with approximately 10% potassium oxide, but similar properties may be attained with other recipes.
- An early type of window glass made by blowing glass into a hollow globe (crown) and then flattening it on a punty, reheating and spinning out into a flat disk by centrifugal force.
noun
- An optical system of close equidistant and parallel lines or bars, especially lines ruled on a polished surface, used for producing spectra by diffraction.
- The sound made by something that grates against something else.
- (nautical, in the plural) The strong wooden lattice used to cover a hatch, admitting light and air; also, a movable lattice used for the flooring of boats.
- The loose material that comes from something being grated.
- A barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air.
- A frame of iron bars to hold a fire.
- a frame of iron bars to hold a fire
- a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air
- optical device consisting of a surface with many parallel grooves in it; disperses a beam of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into its wavelengths to produce its spectrum
adj
verb
noun
name
noun
- An arrangement of two lenses for a microscope, designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion, thus rendering the image of an object more clear and distinct.
- (quantum mechanics) A quantum state of a system with a spin of ½, such that there are two allowed values of the spin component, −½ and +½.
- (radio) Dipole antenna.
- (lapidary) An imitation gem made of two pieces of glass or crystal with a layer of color between them.
- (linguistics) One of two or more different words in a language derived from the same etymological root but having different phonological forms (e.g., toucher and toquer in French or shade and shadow in English). See also Appendix:Glossary#doublet.
- (printing, US) A word or phrase set a second time by mistake.
- (computing) A word (or rather, a halfword) consisting of two bytes.
- (botany) A very small flowering plant, Dimeresia howellii.
- A pair of two similar or equal things; couple.
- Either of two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost.
- (literature) In textual criticism, two different narrative accounts of the same actual event.
- (historical) A man’s waistcoat.
- A man’s close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves, worn by European men from the 1400s to the 1600s.
- A word ladder puzzle.
- a man's close-fitting jacket; worn during the Renaissance
noun
- The dioptre adjustment mechanism of a pair of binoculars or of a camera viewfinder.
- A unit of measure of the power of a lens or mirror, equal to the reciprocal of its focal length in meters. Myopia is diagnosed and measured in diopters.
- a unit of measurement of the refractive power of a lens which is equal to the reciprocal of the focal length measured in meters; used by oculists
noun
adj
intj
noun
- in a doubly refracting crystal, the line in the direction of which no double refraction occurs
- a line that passes through the center of curvature of a lens so that light is neither reflected nor refracted
- (crystallography, mineralogy) The direction in which a ray of light passing through a crystal does not suffer double refraction.
- The optical axis.
noun
- (physics) An optical technique of visualizing patterns of fluid flow by using differences in refractive index
- A shadow-picture; a radiograph or X-ray photograph; a sciagram.
- a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays)
verb
verb
- determine the refracting power of (a lens)
- subject to refraction
- (transitive, physics) Of a medium, substance, object, etc.: to deflect the course of (light rays), esp. when they enter the medium, etc., at an oblique angle; to cause refraction of (light, other electromagnetic radiation, or sound or other wave phenomena).
- (transitive, optics) To cause (light) to change direction as a result of entering a different medium.
- (transitive, ophthalmology) To measure, and often also to correct with lenses, the refractive error of (an eye) or the eyes of (a person).
- (transitive, figurative) To mediate; to alter; to distort.
verb
- (physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light, etc., according to wavelength; to refract.
- (transitive, intransitive) To disseminate.
- (transitive, intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate.
- (transitive, intransitive) To scatter in different directions.
- (transitive, intransitive) To distribute throughout.
- cause to become widely known
- cause to separate
- to cause to separate and go in different directions
- move away from each other
- separate (light) into spectral rays
- distribute loosely
adj
adj
name
- (physics) Initialism of Stanford Large Detector.
- (international politics) Initialism of Shangri-La Dialogue.
- (UK politics) Initialism of Social and Liberal Democrats, the former name of the Liberal Democrats.
- (UK, law) Initialism of Statute Law Database; the former name for legislation.gov.uk.
- (UK politics) Initialism of Scottish Liberal Democrats.
noun
- (Internet) Initialism of second-level domain.
- (photography) Initialism of single lens digital.
- (graphics) Initialism of single-line diagram.
- (graphics) Initialism of straight-line diagram.
- (graphics) Initialism of Styled Layer Descriptor.
- (meteorology, aviation) Initialism of supercooled large droplet.
- (uncountable, accounting) Initialism of straight-line depreciation.
- (electronics) Initialism of semiconductor laser diode.
- (physics) Initialism of superluminescent diode.