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Dichroism

The property of presenting different colors by transmitted light, when viewed in two different directions, the colors being unlike in the direction of unlike or unequal axes.

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Pleochroism 76% connected

The property possessed by some crystals, of showing different colors when viewed in the direction of different axes.

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Aeolotropic adjective · 78% connection

Exhibiting differences of quality or property in different directions; not isotropic.

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Aeolotropy noun · 78% connection

Difference of quality or property in different directions.

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Anisometric adjective · 78% connection

Not isometric; having unsymmetrical parts; -- said of crystals with three unequal axes.

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Anisotropic adjective · 78% connection

Not isotropic; having different properties in different directions; thus, crystals of the isometric system are optically isotropic, bu…

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Anorthic adjective · 78% connection

Having unequal oblique axes; as, anorthic crystals.

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Assessment noun · 78% connection

A valuation of property or profits of business, for the purpose of taxation; such valuation and an adjudging of the proper sum to be l…

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Asterism noun · 78% connection

An optical property of some crystals which exhibit a star-shaped by reflected light, as star sapphire, or by transmitted light, as som…

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Breccia noun · 78% connection

A rock composed of angular fragments either of the same mineral or of different minerals, etc., united by a cement, and commonly prese…

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Collimate verb · 78% connection

To render parallel to a certain line or direction; to bring into the same line, as the axes of telescopes, etc.; to render parallel, a…

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Color noun · 78% connection

A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objec…

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Conjugate adjective · 78% connection

Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; -- frequently used in pure and applied mathematics with referen…

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Dichroite noun · 78% connection

Iolite; -- so called from its presenting two different colors when viewed in two different directions. See Iolite.

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Difference noun · 78% connection

The act of differing; the state or measure of being different or unlike; distinction; dissimilarity; unlikeness; variation; as, a diff…

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Different adjective · 78% connection

Of various or contrary nature, form, or quality; partially or totally unlike; dissimilar; as, different kinds of food or drink; differ…

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Dioptrics noun · 78% connection

The science of the refraction of light; that part of geometrical optics which treats of the laws of the refraction of light in passing…

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Disparates n. pl. · 78% connection

Things so unequal or unlike that they can not be compared with each other.

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Disthene noun · 78% connection

Cyanite or kyanite; -- so called in allusion to its unequal hardness in two different directions. See Cyanite.

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Diverge verb · 78% connection

To extend from a common point in different directions; to tend from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread apart; to…

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