Usually means: Light completely reflects within medium.
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  1. total internal reflection: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. total internal reflection: Collins English Dictionary
  3. total internal reflection: Wiktionary
  4. total internal reflection: Dictionary.com
  5. Total internal reflection: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. total internal reflection: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  2. total internal reflection: Encyclopedia

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  1. Total Internal Reflection: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

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  1. total internal reflection: Glossary of Related Solar Power Terms
  2. total internal reflection: Solar Electric Glossary
  3. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (total internal reflection)

noun:  (optics, uncountable) A phenomenon where light, instead of passing into a medium of a lower refractive index and refracting away from the normal, is completely reflected by the boundary between the two media because it approaches at an angle greater than or equal to the critical angle.
noun:  (countable) An instance of this phenomenon.

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