extinction angle

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsangle of extinction

   Broaderangle

Questions about extinction angle

What does extinction angle mean?

extinction angle 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 extinction angle?

Close synonyms include angle of extinction. 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 extinction angle a common word?

extinction angle 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.