TRICHROISM

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pleochroism of a crystal so that it exhibits three different colors when viewed from three different directions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("trichroism" is a kind of...):

pleochroism (the phenomenon of different colors appearing when certain crystals are viewed from different directions)

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