"Pockels effect" meaning in English

See Pockels effect in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: Pockels effects [plural]
Etymology: Named after Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels. Head templates: {{en-noun}} Pockels effect (plural Pockels effects)
  1. An effect that changes or produces birefringence in an optical medium induced by electric field. Wikipedia link: Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels Categories (topical): Optics

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for Pockels effect meaning in English (1.5kB)

{
  "etymology_text": "Named after Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Pockels effects",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Pockels effect (plural Pockels effects)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Optics",
          "orig": "en:Optics",
          "parents": [
            "Physics",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An effect that changes or produces birefringence in an optical medium induced by electric field."
      ],
      "id": "en-Pockels_effect-en-noun-o19n4yJE",
      "links": [
        [
          "birefringence",
          "birefringence"
        ],
        [
          "optical",
          "optical"
        ],
        [
          "electric field",
          "electric field"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Pockels effect"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "Named after Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Pockels effects",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Pockels effect (plural Pockels effects)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English eponyms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "en:Optics"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An effect that changes or produces birefringence in an optical medium induced by electric field."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "birefringence",
          "birefringence"
        ],
        [
          "optical",
          "optical"
        ],
        [
          "electric field",
          "electric field"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Pockels effect"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.