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total internal reflexion

total internal reflexion is the alternative form 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.

Forms of total internal reflexion

pluraltotal internal reflexions

Questions about total internal reflexion

What is total internal reflexion the alternative form of?
Total internal reflexion is the alternative form of total internal reflection.

Words near total internal reflexion in the dictionary

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

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