Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

second-harmonic generation

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.31 in modern English

Syllables: sec-ond-har-mon-ic -gen-er-a-tion
IPA

35

Scrabble Score

24

Letters

9

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A nonlinear optical process in which two photons with the same frequency interact with a nonlinear material.

Inflected Forms

second-harmonic generations (plural) SHG (alternative, abbreviation)

Synonyms

frequency doubling

Questions

What does second-harmonic generation mean?: A nonlinear optical process in which two photons with the same frequency interact with a nonlinear material.

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