Trichroism

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The property possessed by certain minerals of exhibiting three different colors when viewed from three different directions under white lights.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The property of some optically anisotropic crystals of transmitting different colours of light in three different spatial directions.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The quality possessed by some crystals of presenting different colors in three different directions.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In biology, trimorphism in the coloring of a species.
  • n. The property possessed by some crystals of exhibiting different colors in three different directions when viewed by transmitted light.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. pleochroism of a crystal so that it exhibits three different colors when viewed from three different directions
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