dichroic
Americanadjective
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(of a solution or uniaxial crystal) exhibiting dichroism
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another word for dichromatic
Etymology
Origin of dichroic
1860–65; < Greek díchro ( os ) of two colors + -ic; see di- 1, -chroic
Example Sentences
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It features Siegel’s photographs, which were taken through dichroic lenses, and scans of ink drawings on rice paper.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026
In-focus light rays from this tiny region pass through the dichroic mirror and the second pinhole to a detector and a computer.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
A different sun-filled room is occupied by a pair of works by Alyson Shotz made of thin bands of a semi-reflective material called dichroic acrylic.
From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2012
He layered bubbled panes and “turbulent swirls,” the authors write, and his dichroic glass sheets have metal oxide tints that look turquoise by day but reflect in “deep cordovan red” at night.
From New York Times • May 6, 2011
The augite is mostly brown, often with a purplish tinge, hardly at all dichroic, but frequently showing zonal or hour-glass structure, and various types of twinning.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various
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