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diattenuation

diattenuation noun: attenuation of light that depends upon its polarization.

Noun

diattenuation

  1. attenuation of light that depends upon its polarization
    • Singular Mueller matrices play an important role in polarization algebra and have peculiar properties that stem from the fact that either the medium exhibits maximum diattenuation and/or polarizance, or because its associated canonical depolarizer has the property of fully randomizing, the circular...2015, José J. Gil, Razvigor Ossikovski, Ignacio San José, “Singular Mueller matrices”, in arXiv

Origin of diattenuation

From dia- + attenuation.

Questions about diattenuation

What does diattenuation mean?
Diattenuation means attenuation of light that depends upon its polarization.
What part of speech is diattenuation?
Diattenuation is a noun.

Words near diattenuation in the dictionary

  1. diatropism
  2. diatropisms
  3. diatryma
  4. diatrymas
  5. diatrypaceous
  6. diattenuation
  7. diatyposes
  8. diatyposis
  9. diaulic
  10. diauloi
  11. diaulos

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