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total internal reflections

total internal reflections is the plural of total internal reflection.

Meaning of total internal reflection

Noun

total internal reflection (countable and uncountable, plural total internal reflections)

  1. (uncountable) A phenomenon where light, instead of passing into a medium of a lower refractive index and refracting away from the normal, is completely reflected by the boundary between the two media because it approaches at an angle greater than or equal to the critical angle.
  2. (countable) An instance of this phenomenon.

Questions about total internal reflections

What is total internal reflections the plural of?
Total internal reflections is the plural of total internal reflection.

Words near total internal reflections in the dictionary

  1. total group
  2. total groups
  3. total hardness
  4. total hardnesses
  5. total internal reflection
  6. total internal reflections
  7. total internal reflexion
  8. total internal reflexions
  9. total loss
  10. total losses
  11. total object

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