total internal reflection

total internal reflection: The reflection that occurs when light, in a higher refractive-index medium, strikes an interface, with a medium with a lower refractive index, at an angle of incidence (with respect to the normal) greater than the critical angle. (188) See Snell's law (Note 3).

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