Associations to the word «Birefringence»

Wiktionary

BIREFRINGENCE, noun. (physics) the splitting of a ray of light into two parallel rays of perpendicular polarization by passage through an optically anisotropic medium

Dictionary definition

BIREFRINGENCE, noun. Splitting a ray into two parallel rays polarized perpendicularly.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King