"photochromism" meaning in English

See photochromism in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: photochromisms [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} photochromism (countable and uncountable, plural photochromisms)
  1. The reversible transformation of the optical properties of a material when exposed to electromagnetic radiation, especially the reversible darkening of a plastic lens when exposed to sunlight. Wikipedia link: photochromism Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (the reversible transformation of the optical properties of a material when exposed to electromagnetic radiation): fótacrómachas [masculine] (Irish), fotocromia [feminine] (Italian)
    Sense id: en-photochromism-en-noun-Me8jU1mv Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Photochemistry

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for photochromism meaning in English (1.6kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "photochromisms",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "photochromism (countable and uncountable, plural photochromisms)",
      "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",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Photochemistry",
          "orig": "en:Photochemistry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The reversible transformation of the optical properties of a material when exposed to electromagnetic radiation, especially the reversible darkening of a plastic lens when exposed to sunlight."
      ],
      "id": "en-photochromism-en-noun-Me8jU1mv",
      "links": [
        [
          "reversible",
          "reversible"
        ],
        [
          "transformation",
          "transformation"
        ],
        [
          "optical",
          "optical"
        ],
        [
          "electromagnetic radiation",
          "electromagnetic radiation"
        ],
        [
          "darkening",
          "darkening"
        ],
        [
          "plastic",
          "plastic"
        ],
        [
          "lens",
          "lens"
        ],
        [
          "sunlight",
          "sunlight"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "the reversible transformation of the optical properties of a material when exposed to electromagnetic radiation",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "fótacrómachas"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "the reversible transformation of the optical properties of a material when exposed to electromagnetic radiation",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "fotocromia"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "photochromism"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "photochromism"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "photochromisms",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "photochromism (countable and uncountable, plural photochromisms)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "en:Photochemistry"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The reversible transformation of the optical properties of a material when exposed to electromagnetic radiation, especially the reversible darkening of a plastic lens when exposed to sunlight."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "reversible",
          "reversible"
        ],
        [
          "transformation",
          "transformation"
        ],
        [
          "optical",
          "optical"
        ],
        [
          "electromagnetic radiation",
          "electromagnetic radiation"
        ],
        [
          "darkening",
          "darkening"
        ],
        [
          "plastic",
          "plastic"
        ],
        [
          "lens",
          "lens"
        ],
        [
          "sunlight",
          "sunlight"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "photochromism"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "the reversible transformation of the optical properties of a material when exposed to electromagnetic radiation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "fótacrómachas"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "the reversible transformation of the optical properties of a material when exposed to electromagnetic radiation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fotocromia"
    }
  ],
  "word": "photochromism"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-18 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). 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.