eta·lon
| \ ˈātᵊlˌän, ˈet- \
plural -s
Definition of etalon
: an interferometer in which two parallel partially silvered glass plates at a fixed distance apart produce by multiple reflection interference spectra of high dispersion and resolution adapted to the fine-structure analysis of spectrum lines
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