PLEOCHROISM

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The phenomenon of different colors appearing when certain crystals are viewed from different directions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("pleochroism" is a kind of...):

optical phenomenon (a physical phenomenon related to or involving light)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pleochroism"):

dichroism (pleochroism of a crystal so that it exhibits two different colors when viewed from two different directions)

trichroism (pleochroism of a crystal so that it exhibits three different colors when viewed from three different directions)