diffracting
present participle ofdiffract
diffract
verb[T]
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Physical & chemical processes
- absorbable
- absorptive
- absorptive capacity
- acidification
- addition reaction
- condense
- evaporate
- evaporation
- excitability
- excitation
- excite
- exergonic
- nuclear fission
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diffracting
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It is observed numerically that an initiallydiffractingbeam is accompanied by oscillatory self-focusing of the beam with distance of propagation.
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For some materials, especiallydiffractingones, the reflectance measured in some directions varies greatly from the reflectance measured in others.
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This paper compares the theory with data obtained during experiments withdiffractingshocks.
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Furthermore, the rhinoceros does not suffer from the quality of the marine medium diffusing anddiffractinglight, as does the dolphin.
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This will not only reduce the total pulse energy but also introduce additional high spatial frequencies into the near-fielddiffractingenergy away from the central peak and into side lobes.
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The shock wave isdiffractingaround the pressure-gauge holder in this figure and the shock wave reflected from the face of the holder is moving back towards the exploding sphere.
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High power is useful in penetrating buildings,diffractingaround hills, and refracting in the dense atmosphere near the horizon for some distance beyond the horizon.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These coefficients are then used to calculate the field strength and phase for each direction away from thediffractingpoint.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They are artifacts caused by lightdiffractingaround the support vanes of the secondary mirror.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Upon sample rotation, these will disappear, and other crystallites will appear in the new topograph as stronglydiffracting.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Highly ordered, stronglydiffractingmaterials - like minerals or semiconductors - are generally unproblematic, whereas e.g. protein crystals are particularly challenging for topographic imaging.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In white-beam topography, all misoriented crystallites will bediffractingsimultaneously (each at a different wavelength).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In order to gain energy spectrum information, adiffractingcrystal may be used to separate the different photons.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.For light, we can often neglect one dimension if thediffractingobject extends in that direction over a distance far greater than the wavelength.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.For light, we can often neglect one direction if thediffractingobject extends in that direction over a distance far greater than the wavelength.
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