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    diffraction
    noun when light passes sharp edges or goes through narrow slits the rays are deflected and produce fringes of light and dark bands
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=diffraction
    
    
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    diffraction
    (dĭ-frak´shәn) the bending or breaking up of a ray of light into its component parts.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21001
    
    
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    Diffraction
    • (n.) The deflection and decomposition of light in passing by the edges of opaque bodies or through narrow slits, causing the appearance of parallel bands or fringes of prismatic colors, as by the action of a grating of fine lines or bars.
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/diffraction/
    
    
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    diffraction
    the spreading of waves around obstacles. Diffraction takes place with sound; with electromagnetic radiation, such as light, X-rays, and gamma rays; ... [16 related articles]
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/d/47
    
    
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    Diffraction
    Diffraction refers to various phenomena which occur when a wave encounters an obstacle. Italian scientist Francesco Maria Grimaldi coined the word "diffraction" and was the first to record accurate observations of the phenomenon in 1665. In classical physics, the diffraction phenomenon is described...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction
    
    
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    Diffraction
    The frequency-dependent ability of sound waves to “bend” over or around a partial height barrier such as a furniture panel, which results in an effective “acoustical shadow” only at high frequencies
    Found op http://www.armstrong.com/commceilingsna/article22542.html
    
    
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    Diffraction
    Periodic scattering of moving objects when they collide with an orderly pattern of fixed objects. Diffraction always follows Bragg's Law {n*Wavelength=2*Spacing of fixed objects*sin(angle of scattering)}. This periodic scattering is useful in determining the spacing of the fixed objects since all ot...
    Found op http://www.unl.edu/CMRAcfem/glossary.htm
    
    
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    DIFFRACTION
    The result of light waves interfering with other after passing through a narrow aperture, causing them to bend or spread.
    Found op http://www.weather.com/glossary/d.html
    
    
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    diffraction
    a process in which an incident wave, which propagates in a medium and encounters one or more obstacles, possibly limiting openings gives rise in this medium to another wave not interpretable by geometrical optics, called a diffracted wave
    Found op http://www.electropedia.org/iev/iev.nsf/display?openform&ievref=705-04-44
    
    
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    diffraction
    the phenomenon whereby the propagation of a wave differs from that predicted by geometric optics due to the influence on that wave of an opening, obstruction or inhomogeneity in the medium
    Found op http://www.electropedia.org/iev/iev.nsf/display?openform&ievref=731-03-34
    
    
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    diffraction
    phenomenon by which a sound wave is changed in direction by an obstacle or other heterogeneity in the medium
    Found op http://www.electropedia.org/iev/iev.nsf/display?openform&ievref=801-23-25
    
    
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    diffraction
    deviation of the direction of propagation of a radiation, determined by the wave nature of radiation, and occurring when the radiation passes the edge of an obstacle
    Found op http://www.electropedia.org/iev/iev.nsf/display?openform&ievref=845-01-13
    
    
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    diffraction
    The spreading or bending of waves as they pass round the edge of an obstacle or through an opening whose size is about that of the light's wavelength. The disturbed waves then interfere to produce ripple-patterns (see interference). Diffraction is a property that distinguishes between wavelike and p...
    Found op http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/D/diffraction.html
    
    

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