pleochroism

English

Noun

pleochroism (countable and uncountable, plural pleochroisms)

1. (physics) The optical phenomenon in some coloured, transparent crystals (such as tourmaline and opal) in which the colour changes when viewed from different directions.

Related terms

• dichroism
• pleochroic
• trichroism

Translations

optical phenomenon

• Azerbaijani: polixroizm
• Catalan: pleocroisme m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 多色性 (zh) (duōsèxìng)

• Japanese: 多色性 (ja) (たしょくせい, tashokusei)
• Kazakh: плеохроизм (pleoxroizm)
• Korean: 다색성(多色性) (dasaekseong)
• Malayalam: ട്രൈക്ക്രോയിസം (ṭraikkrōyisaṁ)
• Spanish: pleocroísmo m

Anagrams

• lipochromes