Usually means: Double refraction of light phenomenon.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word birefringence:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. birefringence: Merriam-Webster
  2. birefringence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. birefringence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. birefringence: Collins English Dictionary
  5. birefringence: Vocabulary.com
  6. birefringence: Wordnik
  7. birefringence: Wiktionary
  8. birefringence: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. birefringence: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. birefringence: Dictionary.com
  11. Birefringence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. birefringence: Rhymezone
  13. birefringence: FreeDictionary.org
  14. birefringence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. birefringence: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. birefringence: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. birefringence: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. birefringence: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Birefringence: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Liquid Crystal (No longer online)
  2. Birefringence: Gems and Precious Stones
  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  4. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (birefringence)

noun:  (physics) The splitting of a ray of light into two parallel rays of perpendicular polarization by passage through an optically anisotropic medium; the property of a material that light passing through it is so split.

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