Fresnel drag coefficient

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Fresnel drag coefficient [frā′nel ′drag ‚kō·i‚fish·ənt]

(optics)

The quantity 1 - (1/n²), wherenis the index of diffraction of a transparent medium, believed by Fresnel to be the ratio of the velocity with which ether was dragged along in the medium to the velocity of the medium itself.

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