Cotton-Mouton constant

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Cotton-Mouton constant [¦kät·ən ¦mü·ton ‚kän·stənt]

(optics)

A constant giving the strength of the Cotton-Mouton effect in a liquid; when multiplied by the path length and the square of the magnetic field, it gives the phase difference between the components of light parallel and perpendicular to the field.

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