Schlieren Definition

shlîrən
schlieren
noun
Small streaks or masses in igneous rocks, differing in composition from the main rock but blending gradually into it.
Webster's New World
Regions in a translucent medium, as a fluid, that have a different density and consequently a different index of refraction than the medium and that can be photographed as shadows produced by the refraction of light passed through these regions.
Webster's New World

Regions of a fluid having different refractive index because of their different density.

Wiktionary

(geology) Irregular streaks of different composition in some igneous rocks.

Wiktionary

Origin of Schlieren

  • German pl. of Schliere from dialectal Shliere streaks from Middle High German slier mud, slime from Old High German sclierrun pieces, bits

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • German streaks

    From Wiktionary

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