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quarter-wave plate meaning in Tamil

காலலைத்தட்டு

quarter-wave plate in Tamil: காலலைத்தட்டு. In English, quarter-wave plate means a sheet of birefringent material whose thickness is such that the light associated with the larger refractive index is retarded in phase by 90° with respect of that associated with the smaller refractive index; used to convert linearly polarized light into circularly polarized light.

Tamil words for quarter-wave plate

காலலைத்தட்டு

English meaning of quarter-wave plate

  1. noun A sheet of birefringent material whose thickness is such that the light associated with the larger refractive index is retarded in phase by 90° with respect of that associated with the smaller refractive index; used to convert linearly polarized light into circularly polarized light.

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Questions about quarter-wave plate in Tamil

What is the meaning of quarter-wave plate in Tamil?
Quarter-wave plate in Tamil is காலலைத்தட்டு.
quarter-wave plate என்பதன் தமிழ் அர்த்தம் என்ன?
Quarter-wave plate: காலலைத்தட்டு.
What does quarter-wave plate mean in English?
Quarter-wave plate means a sheet of birefringent material whose thickness is such that the light associated with the larger refractive index is retarded in phase by 90° with respect of that associated with the smaller refractive index; used to convert linearly polarized light into circularly polarized light.

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Tamil words from Tamil Wiktionary: quarter-wave plate (page history and authors). English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: quarter-wave plate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Tamil words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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