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Definition of Diffracts
1. diffract [v] - See also: diffract
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diffracts
Literary usage of Diffracts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Collected Papers on Acoustics by Wallace Clement Sabine (1922)
"Just as a tidal wave, a storm wave, or a ripple may be made to separate and
recross by some obstacle round which it diffracts or from which it is reflected, ..."
2. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1870)
"The animal in general is the appearance of Brahm even more than the man, for the
latter has consciousness, which diffracts prismatically into multiplicity ..."
3. The Triumphs of Temper: A Poem. In Six Cantos by William Hayley (1796)
"... and diffracts the mind. " Mark" (to the nymph SOPHROSYNE began) " The fierce
Xantippe flaming in the van, The vafe, fhe emptied on the ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1894)
"With the circular screen it is easy to observe the important particular case to
which Babinet called attention, viz., that a very thin opaque line diffracts ..."
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