indicatrix

noun

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin indicātrīx. By surface analysis, indicate + -trix.

  1. learned borrowing from indicātrīx

Definitions

  1. An ellipsoid whose three axes represent the refractive indices of an anisotropic crystal…

    An ellipsoid whose three axes represent the refractive indices of an anisotropic crystal for light following different directions with respect to the crystal axes

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for indicatrix. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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