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English
Etymology
From Latin diffractus (“past participle of diffringo (“to shatter, to break into pieces”)”).
Pronunciation
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
diffract (third-person singular simple present diffracts, present participle diffracting, simple past and past participle diffracted)
- (transitive) To cause diffraction
- 1963, Lester del Rey, The Sky Is Falling:
- Dave frowned as he tried to answer. "Well, I suppose the atmosphere is oxygen and nitrogen, mostly; then there's the ionosphere and the ozone layer. As I remember, the color of the sky is due to the scattering of light—light rays being diffracted in the air."
- (intransitive) To undergo diffraction
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