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half-silvered

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adjective

  1. (of a mirror) having an incomplete reflective coating, so that half the incident light is reflected and half transmitted: used in optical instruments and two-way mirrors

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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They can be made to do so with a beam splitter, a half-silvered mirror set at an angle that will, with equal probability, transmit a photon or deflect it by 90°.

From Science Magazine May 6, 2024

The two beams are split by a half-silvered mirror; the object beam is sent through the object, and the reference beam is sent through otherwise identical optical elements.

From Textbooks Aug. 12, 2015

The light beams are recombined by another half-silvered mirror and interfere.

From Textbooks Aug. 12, 2015

Parallel rays of light from a source are split into two beams by a half-silvered mirror.

From Textbooks Aug. 12, 2015

And after that, beside a moss-grown well— Could that be Myra's?—kneeling on the curb, Her golden hair half-silvered by the moon, And violet eyes lit up by love divine, His Ada—his!

From Myra's Well A Tale of All-Hallow-E'en by Dawson, George Francis

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