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dispersive medium
noun
- physics a substance in which waves of different frequencies travel at different speeds
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If you send light produced in this way through a dispersive medium, Einstein predicted, the wave fronts should be deflected if the emission process were classical.
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Thus the ether within the dispersive medium is loaded with molecules which are forced to perform oscillations of the same period as that of the transmitted wave.
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