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jamin interferometer

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.89 in modern English

Syllables
jam-in in-ter-fer-om-e-ter
IPA
33
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
7
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A kind of interferometer made up of two thick mirrors, so that the incident light is split into two parallel rays, displaced by an amount depending on the thickness of the mirror, and recombined at the second mirror to be displayed on a screen.

Etymology

It was developed in 1856 by the French physicist Jules Jamin.

Inflected Forms

Jamin interferometers (plural)

Questions

What does jamin interferometer mean?
A kind of interferometer made up of two thick mirrors, so that the incident light is split into two parallel rays, displaced by an amount depending on the thickness of the mirror, and recombined at the second mirror to be displayed on a screen.
Where does jamin interferometer come from?
It was developed in 1856 by the French physicist Jules Jamin.

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