Term: dichroism: pleochroism of a crystal so that it exhibits two different colors when viewed from two different directions
Candidate hypernym: process: a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states → 1
Candidate hypernym: descender: someone who descends → 0
Candidate hypernym: constantinople: the council in 869 that condemned Photius who had become the patriarch of Constantinople without approval from the Vatican, thereby precipitating the schism between the eastern and western churches → 0
Candidate hypernym: kelvin scale: a temperature scale that defines absolute zero as 0 degrees; water freezes at 273.16 degrees and boils at 373.16 degrees → 0
Candidate hypernym: education: the gradual process of acquiring knowledge → 0
Candidate hypernym: great cerebral vein: a cerebral vein formed by the two internal cerebral veins and continuing into the sinus rectus → 0
Candidate hypernym: popcorn: corn having small ears and kernels that burst when exposed to dry heat → 0
Candidate hypernym: empathy: understanding and entering into another's feelings → 0
Candidate hypernym: systemic circulation: circulation that supplies blood to all the body except to the lungs → 0
Candidate hypernym: acoustic device: a device for amplifying or transmitting sound → 0
Candidate hypernym: cartilage: tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults → 0