angle of extinction

1. 1.

   the angle from its axis that a crystal must be rotated before appearing maximally dark when viewed in polarized light

   Synonymsextinction angle

   Broaderangle

Questions about angle of extinction

What does angle of extinction mean?

angle of extinction means "the angle from its axis that a crystal must be rotated before appearing maximally dark when viewed in polarized light".

What is another word for angle of extinction?

Close synonyms include extinction angle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is angle of extinction a common word?

angle of extinction is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.