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Definition of Diffracting
1. diffract [v] - See also: diffract
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diffracting
Literary usage of Diffracting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1853)
"When the diffracting body is an exceedingly small wire with parallel sides, the
internal fringes extend far beyond the shadow, mingling with the external ..."
2. Elements of the economy of nature; or, The principles of physics, chemistry by John Gibson MacVicar (1830)
"The action of a doubly refracted cry.stal cannot be regarded as a mechanical
splitting or diffracting into ports an incident ray. ..."
3. Report by British Association for the Advancement of Science (1839)
"These new phenomena are rendered visible by bringing lenses of different foci in
contact with the diffracting body, and the fringes seen in any case are ..."
4. Physical Optics by Robert Williams Wood (1914)
"We will now proceed with the more general treatment of cases in which the source
and screen are both at finite distances from the diffracting aperture, ..."
5. X rays: An Introduction to the Study of Röntgen Rays by George William Clarkson Kaye (1914)
"The most obvious and plausible explanation of this 'dissimilarity is that the
relative masses of the two constituents affect the diffracting ability of the ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"In experiment under ordinary circumstances it makes no difference whether the
collecting lens is in front of or behind the diffracting aperture. ..."
7. Electrical Photometry and Illumination: A Treatise on Light and Its by Hermann Bohle (1912)
"On the other hand, if the radiator be placed in a diffracting DIFFRACTION DIFFUSION
FIG. 6'04.—Diffraction and Diffusion. globe, either edged or ..."
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