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Diffract

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To cause diffraction transitive

    "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.""

  2. 2
    undergo diffraction wordnet
  3. 3
    To undergo diffraction intransitive

Etymology

From Latin diffractus (“past participle of diffringo (“to shatter, to break into pieces”)”).

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