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Definition of Biaxal
1. Adjective. Having two axes. "Biaxial crystals"
Definition of Biaxal
1. a. Having two axes; as, biaxial polarization.
Definition of Biaxal
1. biaxial [adj] - See also: biaxial
Lexicographical Neighbors of Biaxal
Literary usage of Biaxal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Light by Robert Alexander Houstoun (1915)
"(1) Mica is a biaxal crystal which cleaves naturally in planes perpendicular to
the bisector of the angle between the optic axes. Its principal indices of ..."
2. The Optical Indicatrix and the Transmission of Light in Crystals by Lazarus Fletcher (1892)
"The form of the wave-surface for biaxal crystals teas really discovered in another
way. The great difficulty in the correlation of the phenomena of the ..."
3. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell (1904)
"Thomson and Tait call it the biaxal Harmonic. Any homogeneous function of x, y,
z which satisfies Laplace's equation may be called a Solid harmonic, ..."
4. An Introduction to the Theory of Optics by Sir Arthur Schuster (1904)
"In general a crystal has two optic axes and is then called "biaxal." If two of
the principal axes are equal to each other, there is only one optic axis, ..."
5. A Treatise on Physical Optics by Alfred Barnard Basset (1892)
"The laws regulating the propagation of light in crystals, were first investigated
mathematically by Fresnel, who showed that the wave-surface in biaxal ..."
6. The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1837)
"On the Phenomena presented by Light in its passage along the Axes of biaxal Crystals.
By the Rev. HUMPHREY LLOYD, AM, MRIA, Fellow of Trinity College, ..."
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