birefringency

/B AY1 R F R IH1 N G AH0 N S IY0/
noun
  1. 1

    Alternative form of birefringence. [(physics) The splitting of a ray of light into two parallel rays of perpendicular polarization by passage through an optically anisotropic medium; the property of a material that light passing through it is so split.]

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