birrefringencia
Spanish, noun[birefɾĩŋˈxẽnsja]
birrefringencia is spelled B-I-R-R-E-F-R-I-N-G-E-N-C-I-A (15 letters) and appears about once in every 33 million words in written Spanish, the 206,423rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Birrefringencia is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “birefringence” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “División de un haz de luz en dos componentes, que viajan a velocidades distintas por un medio. Llamada…”.
What does birrefringencia mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininebirefringence
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. División de un haz de luz en dos componentes, que viajan a velocidades distintas por un medio. Llamada también doble refracción.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of birrefringencia
- birrefringencias plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce birrefringencia?
- [birefɾĩŋˈxẽnsja]
- [birefɾĩŋˈxẽn̟θja]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is birrefringencia in Spanish?
birrefringencia appears about once in every 33 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).