单词 | angle of reflection |
释义 | > as lemmasangle of reflection angle of reflection n. [compare French angle de réflexion (1637)] Optics the angle which a reflected ray of light makes with a line normal to the reflecting surface (or formerly †with the surface itself). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > reflection > [noun] > reflected light > plane or angle of plane of reflection1704 angle of reflection1753 Brewster angle1950 1638 Bp. J. Wilkins Discov. World in Moone i. iv. 58 Where the angel of reflexion is equall to the angel of incidence. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Reflexion Rays of light being supposed..to be reflected by a given curve, so as to make the angle of reflexion equal to the angle of incidence. 1846 Sci. Amer. 19 Dec. 104/1 The local tints of the bodies represented varying with every change that was made in the angle of reflexion. 1991 Leonardo 24 437/1 The military has developed another system that determines what someone is looking at by reading the angle of reflection of an infrared beam sent from specially coated contact lenses. < as lemmas |
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