to diffract

Examples

• All

• When X-rays are introduced into a material, they are diffracted in a characteristic pattern based on the regular, repeating crystalline structure.

  Academic text (2003)

• The photon echo emerges as the third pulse diffracts.

  Academic text (2005)

• So therefore the red color is diffracted at the larger angle than the blue.

• However, these techniques do slightly alter the phase of the light diffracted by the specimen.

  Academic text (2004)

• And you collect the X-rays which have diffracted through your sample focused onto CCD, bit like at the back of your digital camera.

• The regularity of the substrate grooves is evident from its ability to diffract white light.

  Academic text (2006)

• All right, so light starts from the source, hits the aperture plane and then gets diffracted by the apertures and winds up on the image plane over here.

• This ordering of the molecules means that when we fire X-rays at a crystal, it diffracts or scatters the beam into hundreds of intense rays.

• When the grating is present, a laser beam passing through the modulator crystal is diffracted, essentially splitting into two output beams, called first-order and zero-order.

  Academic text (1997)

• When light passes through a narrow slit, it is diffracted and creates a pattern of bright and dark fringes.

Synonyms

A

to aberrate

vsto diffract

• Specialized

9.9

To move away from a straight path or normal shape, often making images look wrong

is specific to wave bending that produces a characteristic pattern through openings

D

to dispread

vsto diffract

• Archaic

9.9

To move outward in many directions to cover a wide area

is about wave bending around obstacles that makes a pattern not simple spreading

Antonyms

S

to straighten

114 2.5

Make something straight and in the right position

How Much

to disperse

104 4.4

to spread

664 1.6

to diffract

• Specialized

1 8.7

to bend

268 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology