total internal reflection (English, noun)
expansion: total internal reflection (countable and uncountable, plural total internal reflections)
Senses:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: 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.
tags: uncountable
glosses: An instance of this phenomenon.
tags: countable
Forms:
form: total internal reflections
tags: plural
form: total internal reflexion
tags: alternative