Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mach-zehnder interferometer

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.75 in modern English

Syllables: mach-zehn-der in-ter-fer-om-e-ter
IPA

50

Scrabble Score

25

Letters

8

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A device used to determine the relative phase shift variations between two collimated beams derived by splitting light from a single source.

Etymology

Named after the physicists Ludwig Mach (who refined the idea) and Ludwig Zehnder (who proposed it in 1891).

Inflected Forms

Mach-Zehnder interferometers (plural)

Questions

What does mach-zehnder interferometer mean?: A device used to determine the relative phase shift variations between two collimated beams derived by splitting light from a single source.
Where does mach-zehnder interferometer come from?: Named after the physicists Ludwig Mach (who refined the idea) and Ludwig Zehnder (who proposed it in 1891).

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