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total internal reflection

noun

Definitions

  1. A phenomenon where light, instead of passing into a medium of a lower refractive index…

    A phenomenon where light, instead of passing into a medium of a lower refractive index and refracting away from the normal, is completely reflected by the boundary between the two media because it approaches at an angle greater than or equal to the critical angle.

  2. An instance of this phenomenon.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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