TOTAL REFLECTION


Meaning of TOTAL REFLECTION in English

Optics.

the effect that occurs when light meets the interface between the medium in which it is traveling and a medium of smaller refractive index at an angle of incidence greater than the critical angle, all light being reflected back to the first medium. Also called total internal reflection .

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