half-silvered
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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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 beams are recombined by another half-silvered mirror, and the interference depends on the various phases emerging from different parts of the object, enhancing contrast.
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
The light beams are recombined by another half-silvered mirror and interfere.
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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