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Specular vs Nonspecular - What's the difference?

specular | nonspecular |

As adjectives the difference between specular and nonspecular

is that specular is pertaining to mirrors; mirror-like, reflective while nonspecular is not specular.

specular

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to mirrors; mirror-like, reflective.
  • * 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 14:
    • a perfect likeness would rather suggest a specular , and hence speculatory, phenomenon [...].
  • (medicine) Of or relating to a speculum; conducted with the aid of a speculum.
    • a specular examination
  • Assisting sight, like a lens etc.
  • * J. Philips
    • Thy specular orb / Apply to well-dissected kernels; lo! / In each observe the slender threads / Of first-beginning trees.
  • (poetic) Offering an expansive view; picturesque.
  • * 1833 , William Wordsworth, Hope Smiled :
    • Calm as the Universe, from specular towers / Of heaven contemplated by Spirits pure.
  • * Milton
    • Look once more, ere we leave this specular mount.

    Derived terms

    * despecularize * specular iron * specularity * specularize * specular stone

    nonspecular

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not specular.