RAMAN EFFECT


Meaning of RAMAN EFFECT in English

/rah"meuhn/ , Optics.

the change in wavelength of light scattered while passing through a transparent medium, the collection of new wavelengths (Raman spectrum) being characteristic of the scattering medium and differing from the fluorescent spectrum in being much less intense and in being unrelated to an absorption band of the medium.

[ 1925-30; named after Sir C. RAMAN ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .