noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The property of some optically anisotropic crystals of transmitting different colours of light in three different spatial directions. uncountable
2. 2
   pleochroism of a crystal so that it exhibits three different colors when viewed from three different directions wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

parti colorpolychrome

Etymology

From trichroic + -ism.

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