Relieflike

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling or characteristic of relief (the difference of elevations on a surface).

    "When two beams reconverge with the assistance of prisms, the phase difference between the two beams provides relieflike, high-contrast images of the specimen."

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"When two beams reconverge with the assistance of prisms, the phase difference between the two beams provides relieflike, high-contrast images of the specimen."

Etymology

From relief + -like.

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