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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In optics, one of the lines or curves in the interference pattern produced when a crystal is viewed in the convergent field of a polariscope; a line of constant direction of polarization. The principal isogyres are heavy black markings upon the interference pattern, sometimes in the form of a cross, sometimes appearing as hyperbolas which pass through the optic axis.
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