thermochromy
English
Etymology
From thermo- + Ancient Greek [Term?] (“colouring”).
Noun
thermochromy (uncountable)
- The property possessed by heat of being composed, like light, of rays of different degrees of refrangibility, which are unequal in rate or degree of transmission through diathermic substances.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for thermochromy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)