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aureole, in physicsaureole (ôr`ēōl'), in physics, luminous circle seen when the sun or other bright light is observed through a diffuse medium, i.e., smoke, thin cloud, fog, haze, or mist. It sometimes occurs as a series of concentric circles. The aureole results from the dispersion of light by particles of dust or water. Because of the refraction of the light waves, it exhibits color in varying intensities. In geology, an aureole zone is where rocks show the effect of contacting intruding, hot igneous rock, also called contact metamorphism metamorphism, in geology, process of change in the structure, texture, or composition of rocks caused by agents of heat, deforming pressure, shearing stress, hot, chemically active fluids, or a combination of these, acting while the rock being changed remains..... Click the link for more information. . aureole, in artaureole, in art: see nimbus nimbus (nĭm`bəs), in art, the luminous disk or circle or other indication of light around the head of a sacred personage...... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The orb of her huge Afro rhymes with her blank eyepits and dot-like aureolas, proposing her race, her psyche, and her sex as redundant circles. It's a jubilee, for instance, of hair: masses of hair clotted like the roots of potbound plants, snake-thick dreadlocks, flaming hennaed aureolas, hair the texture of fiberglass insulation, hair with swirls and dips and glides enough to ski on, an Afro rioting two feet off its owners head with a little white hankie draped on top, like a napkin on a bowl of fruit. |
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