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caustic surface
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Noun
caustic surface (plural caustic surfaces)
- (optics) A surface to which rays reflected or refracted by another surface are tangents.
- Caustic curves and surfaces are called catacaustic when formed by reflection, and diacaustic when formed by refraction.
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