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Haidinger fringes
[ hahy-ding-er ]
plural noun
, Optics.
- interference fringes produced by light passing through thick glass plates at near-normal incidence.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Haidinger fringes1
Named after Wilhelm Karl von Haidinger (1795–1871), Austrian mineralogist
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