DIFFRACTION
Dictionary entry overview: What does diffraction mean? • DIFFRACTION (noun)
The noun DIFFRACTION has 1 sense:
1. when light passes sharp edges or goes through narrow slits the rays are deflected and produce fringes of light and dark bands
Familiarity information: DIFFRACTION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• DIFFRACTION (noun)
Meaning:
When light passes sharp edges or goes through narrow slits the rays are deflected and produce fringes of light and dark bands
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("diffraction" is a kind of...):
optical phenomenon (a physical phenomenon related to or involving light)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "diffraction"):
X-ray diffraction (the scattering of X rays by the atoms of a crystal; the diffraction pattern shows structure of the crystal)
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