Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cotton-mouton effect

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.52 in modern English

Syllables: cot-ton--mou-ton -ef-fect
IPA

30

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

7

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The birefringence in a liquid in the presence of a constant transverse magnetic field.

Etymology

Named after Aimé Cotton and Henri Mouton who discovered the effect in 1905.

Inflected Forms

Cotton-Mouton effects (plural)

Questions

What does cotton-mouton effect mean?: The birefringence in a liquid in the presence of a constant transverse magnetic field.
Where does cotton-mouton effect come from?: Named after Aimé Cotton and Henri Mouton who discovered the effect in 1905.

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