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A device designed to measure radiant energy, particularly...
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The diffraction of a particle by a standing...
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In an interlaced scanning electro-optical system such as...
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An eyepiece consisting of a planoconvex field lens and a...
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The SI unit of temperature equal to 1°C. See absolute...
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A simple form of astronomical telescope that uses a fixed...
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See color perception test equipment; eye test...
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The material lost during a laser cutting or machining...
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See convolution...
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A cell filled with a transparent material that, when placed...
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A quadratic nonlinear electro-optic effect found in...
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E.I. duPont's trade name for an aramid yarn used as a...
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A method of laser welding in which a high-power,...
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A type of geometrical distortion that brings about a...
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A dark region created by spherical aberration of an...
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An array of spectral lines formed when a beam of electrons,...
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In the SI system, prefix meaning one thousand,...
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A unit of frequency that equals 1000...
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A unit of energy or work that is equal to 1000 (103)...
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A mount for an optic element or optics assembly, designed...
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That portion of physics concerned with motion in the...
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A cathode-ray tube that serves as a picture tube in a...
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An atmospheric nonlinear process unique to CO2 laser...
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A phase hologram in which only the phase modulation of an...
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A computer-generated kinoform used for data processing...
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For any point on a thermal radiator, at thermal equilibrium...
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A thermionic tube that has a velocity-modulated electron...
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See Foucault knife-edge...
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A measurement of the hardness of a material as determined...
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A two-stage illuminating system for a microscope in which...
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A visual, single-unit spectrophotometer with a biprism and...
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Westinghouse trade name for an alloy of iron, nickel and...
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Analysis of the reflection spectrum that allows the...
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Astronomical detector consisting of a photocathode isolated...
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An arc lamp that has its cavity filled with krypton to...
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A two-flux theory in which the radiation is assumed to be...
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See Faraday...
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Pennwalt's trade name for polyvinylidene fluoride, a...
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chemical vapor deposition (CVD) - A process of applying dopants to a glass bait by flame reactions of gaseous compounds.

See also outside vapor-phase oxidation; inside vapor-phase oxidation.
 

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