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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.

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"Diffraction" Quotes from Famous Books

... "Spectric" will indicate something of the nature of the technique which it describes. "Spectric" has, in this connection, three separate but closely related meanings. In the first place, it speaks, to the mind, of that process of diffraction by which are disarticulated the several colored and other rays of which light is composed. It indicates our feeling that the theme of a poem is to be regarded as a prism, upon which the colorless ...

— Spectra - A Book of Poetic Experiments • Arthur Ficke

Words linked to "Diffraction" : optical phenomenon, X-ray diffraction, diffraction grating, diffract