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Definition of Fresnels
1. fresnel [n] - See also: fresnel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fresnels
Literary usage of Fresnels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Baltimore Lectures on Molecular Dynamics and the Wave Theory of Light by William Thomson Kelvin (1904)
"The experiment consists in letting light; entering through the first nicol and
traversing the two fresnels and the second ..."
2. The Theory of Sound by John William Strutt Rayleigh (1896)
"fresnels ZONES. [283. given by p* + c2 = (c + £ n\y, or p3 = nc\, very nearly ;
so that the rings into which the plane is divided, being of approximately ..."
3. Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society by London Mathematical Society (1901)
"... und for this it is known that the wave surface for transverse waves is fresnels.
Thus, whenever Green's condition, that transverse waves can be ..."
4. Elementary Treatise on Physics Experimental and Applied: For the Use of by Adolphe Ganot (1881)
"... of rays of heat has recently been established by the experiments of Knoblauch
and others. And Forbes, who has repeated fresnels experiment with a ..."