“Brewster's”

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Brewster's booby

noun

: a chiefly grayish brown booby (Sula leucogaster brewsteri) occurring from the Gulf of California to the Galápagos islands

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Brewster's law

noun

: a statement in optics: when unpolarized light of given wavelength is incident upon the surface of a transparent substance it experiences maximum plane polarization at the angle of incidence whose tangent is the refractive index of the substance for that wave length compare polarizing angle

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