Usually means: Variations in density causing refractions.
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  1. schlieren: Merriam-Webster
  2. schlieren: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. schlieren: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. schlieren: Collins English Dictionary
  5. schlieren: Wordnik
  6. schlieren: Wiktionary
  7. schlieren: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. schlieren: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. schlieren: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. schlieren: Dictionary.com
  11. Schlieren: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. schlieren: Robb: German English
  13. schlieren: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

(Note: See schlieric as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (schlieren)

noun:  Regions of a fluid having different refractive index because of their different density.
noun:  (geology) Irregular streaks of different composition in some igneous rocks.

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