Usually means: Stress visualization using polarized light.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. photoelasticity: Merriam-Webster
  2. photoelasticity: Collins English Dictionary
  3. photoelasticity: Wiktionary
  4. photoelasticity: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  5. photoelasticity: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  6. photoelasticity: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. photoelasticity: Dictionary.com
  8. Photoelasticity: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. photoelasticity: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. photoelasticity: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Photoelasticity: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

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Definitions from Wiktionary (photoelasticity)

▸ noun:  a technique for studying and measuring the stresses and strains in an object by means of mechanical birefringence

Similar:
photoviscoelasticity, photothermoelasticity, photodichroism, photorefraction, Kerr effect, pseudoelasticity, piezochromism, elastometry, birefringence, electrooptics, more...

Opposite:
inelasticity, rigidity, stiffness

Types:
isorotation, isochromism, isoclinism, isotropy, isoclinic, more...

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Similar:
photoviscoelasticity, photothermoelasticity, photodichroism, photorefraction, Kerr effect, pseudoelasticity, piezochromism, elastometry, birefringence, electrooptics, more...

Opposite:
inelasticity, rigidity, stiffness

Types:
isorotation, isochromism, isoclinism, isotropy, isoclinic, more...



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