Definition of Trichroic

1. a. Exhibiting trichroism; pleochroic; pleochroism.

Definition of Trichroic

1. Adjective. Of, relating to, or exhibiting trichroism. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Trichroic

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Trichroic

1. Relating to or marked by trichroism. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trichroic

trichostrongylosis
trichostrongylus
trichothecene
trichothecenes
trichothiodystrophic
trichothiodystrophies
trichotillomania
trichotillomanic
trichotomies
trichotomous
trichotomously
trichotomy
trichotoxin
trichotrophy
trichroic (current term)
trichroism
trichromacy
trichromat
trichromatic
trichromatically
trichromatism
trichromatisms
trichromatopsia
trichromats
trichrome
trichrome stain
trichromic
trichterbrust
trichuriases

Literary usage of Trichroic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elementary Crystallography: Being Part One of General Mineralogy by William Shirley Bayley (1910)
"Only crystals possessing no principal planes of symmetry may be trichroic, the absorption being different along three directions perpendicular to one ..."

2. Elementary Treatise on Natural Philosophy by Augustin Privat-Deschanel (1898)
"Objects which have the same colour to the trichroic eye have also the same colour to the dichroic eye. 245. Colour and Musical Pitch. ..."

3. The Elements of Physics: A College Text-book by Edward Leamington Nichols, William Suddards Franklin (1903)
"Dichroic and trichroic Vision. — Consider two (or more) beams of light of different composition. These beams give distinctly different sensations of color. ..."

4. Elementary Chemical Microscopy by Emile Monnin Chamot (1921)
"If the phenomena observed involve a two-color change the crystals are said to be dichroic; if a three-color change trichroic. Uniaxial crystals can exhibit ..."

5. Annual Report (new Series).: Volume I-XVI...1885-1904 by Geological Survey of Canada (1902)
"The augite is very largely in process of alteration into a deep green, strongly trichroic hornblende, and no better or more instructive example of ..."

6. Elementary Treatise on Natural Philosphy by Augustin Privat-Deschanel (1881)
"Objects which have the same colour to the trichroic eye have also the same colour to the dichroic eye. 808. Colour and Musical Pitch. ..."

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