dichroic

[ dahy-kroh-ik ]

adjective

1. characterized by dichroism:

   dichroic crystal.

2. dichromatic.

dichroic

/ daɪˈkrəʊɪk; ˌdaɪkrəʊˈɪtɪk /

adjective

1. (of a solution or uniaxial crystal) exhibiting dichroism
2. another word for dichromatic

Word History and Origins

Origin of dichroic¹

1860–65; < Greek díchro ( os ) of two colors + -ic; di- ¹, -chroic

Word History and Origins

Origin of dichroic¹

C19: from Greek dikhroos having two colours, from di ¹+ khrōs colour

Example Sentences

Hung high on the walls like church icons, sculptures by olivas consist of garden shears wired onto small puddles of iridescent, dichroic glass.

From New York Times

When he’s not studying polarized electron scatterings and “chiral and dichroic effects,” he likes to pencil out the Newtonian principles of football, and he spent years puzzling over the beautiful parabolic flight of a long spiral pass, publishing a paper on it in 2021.

From Washington Post

To get to lunch, attendees passed under a colorful spiked 16-foot plexiglass archway coated in a reflective dichroic film, which was originally designed to protect spacesuits from cosmic radiation — and now costs about $125 per square foot.

From New York Times

To get to lunch, attendees passed under a colorful spiked 16-foot plexiglass archway coated in a reflective dichroic film, which was originally designed to protect spacesuits from cosmic radiation — and now costs about $125 per square foot.

From Seattle Times

One piece, a study on the absence of color in the winter, cast a rainbow of reflections on the walls through the use of layered dichroic glass.

From Wall Street Journal