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Word: Diffract
Speech Type: Verb
Etymology:
early 19th century: from Latin diffract- ‘broken in pieces’, from the verb diffringere, from dis- ‘away, from’ + frangere ‘to break’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
dɪˈfrakt
Dialects: British English
Definition:
cause to undergo diffraction
Short Definition:cause to undergo diffraction
Examples:- experiments found that a beam of electrons could be diffracted like light
- diffracted X-rays
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