caustic surface

English

Noun

caustic surface (plural caustic surfaces)

  1. (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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