Talon vs Etalon - What's the difference?
talon | etalon |
A sharp, hooked claw of a bird of prey or other predatory animal.
(zoology) One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth.
(architecture) A kind of moulding, concave at the bottom and convex at the top; an ogee. (When the concave part is at the top, it is called an inverted talon .)
The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt.
In the card game bezique, the remaining stock of undealt cards.
An optical device containing parallel mirrors, used in laser design to delay light.
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As nouns the difference between talon and etalon
is that talon is a sharp, hooked claw of a bird of prey or other predatory animal while etalon is an optical device containing parallel mirrors, used in laser design to delay light.talon
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(wikipedia etalon)Noun
(en noun)page 153,
- It will be shown that the simple theory outlined in the preceding paragraph, which is applicable to single-plate etalons', can be used to predict the main features of the spectral curve of a multi element ' etalon .
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- The laser output will be composed of longitudinal modes that fall inside the transmission band of the etalon , hence a narrowing of the laser line width is observed.
page 7.15,
- The next step of this experiment is to compare the etalon' ''m''1''m''2 (shortest length) with the '''etalon''' ''m''3''m''4 (the next one). For this two ' etalons are arranged side by side as shown in Fig. 7.13a.