ALL meanings of caustic surface
caus·tic sur·face
C c - noun caustic surface a surface that envelopes the light rays reflected or refracted by a curved surface 3
- noun caustic surface the surface to which all light rays emanating from a single point and reflected by a curved surface, as a concave mirror, are tangent. 1
- noun caustic surface (optics) A surface to which rays reflected or refracted by another surface are tangents. 0