interferometric
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- adjective
- /ˌɪntərfɪəˈrɑːmɛtrɪk/
- Specialized
- Optical astronomers are making rapid strides in introducing interferometric techniques to the near-infrared and optical.
- interferometric technique
- interferometric measurement
Examples
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By using interferometric methods, scientists can achieve highly precise measurements in their experiments.
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The interferometric measurement beautifully demonstrates the modulation of the instantaneous frequency.
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A standard reference for all who want to analyze radio interferometric data.
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Instead, one has to resort to interferometric techniques.
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There are also other alternatives to interferometric phase determination.
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Whereas interferometric phase determination requires coherent sources, quantitative propagation-based phase measurement can be made with only partially coherent sources.
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One can determine the source's size by an ingenious interferometric technique developed in the 1950s by Robert Hanbury-Brown and Richard Twiss (HBT) to measure stellar diameters.
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The researchers employed interferometric techniques to analyze the data from their optical experiments.
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The new satellite is equipped with interferometric technology to monitor the Earth's surface changes.
Surface Forms
Morphology
interferometric = interferometry (semi-transparent) = interfere + metry + ic
The adjective is a straightforward derivation from the noun 'interferometry' with the suffix '-ic' meaning 'relating to'.
Etymology
Interferometric comes from interference, what waves do when they meet and make a pattern, and from metric, meaning 'measuring', as in meter. So interferometric describes using wave interference to make very accurate measurements.