As the years progressed, Newton completed his work on universal gravitation, diffraction of light, centrifugal force, centripetal force, inverse-square law, bodies in motion and the variations in tides due to gravity.
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Diffraction
//dɪˈfɹækʃən//
Synonyms for "diffraction" (76 found)
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24 translations across 20 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- дифракция noun (the breaking up of an electromagnetic wave as it passes a geometric structure)
Catalan
1 entries- difracció noun (the breaking up of an electromagnetic wave as it passes a geometric structure)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 繞射 /绕射 noun (the breaking up of an electromagnetic wave as it passes a geometric structure)
- 衍射 noun (the breaking up of an electromagnetic wave as it passes a geometric structure)
Czech
2 entries- difrakce noun (the breaking up of an electromagnetic wave as it passes a geometric structure)
- ohyb noun (the breaking up of an electromagnetic wave as it passes a geometric structure)
Esperanto
1 entries- difrakto noun (the breaking up of an electromagnetic wave as it passes a geometric structure)
Finnish
2 entries- diffraktio noun (the breaking up of an electromagnetic wave as it passes a geometric structure)
- taipuminen noun (the breaking up of an electromagnetic wave as it passes a geometric structure)
French
1 entries- diffraction noun (the breaking up of an electromagnetic wave as it passes a geometric structure)
German
1 entries- Beugung noun (the breaking up of an electromagnetic wave as it passes a geometric structure)
Greek
1 entries- διάθλαση noun (the breaking up of an electromagnetic wave as it passes a geometric structure)
Hindi
1 entries- विवर्तन noun (the breaking up of an electromagnetic wave as it passes a geometric structure)
Indonesian
1 entries- difraksi noun (the breaking up of an electromagnetic wave as it passes a geometric structure)
Italian
1 entries- diffrazione noun (the breaking up of an electromagnetic wave as it passes a geometric structure)
Kazakh
1 entries- дифракция noun (the breaking up of an electromagnetic wave as it passes a geometric structure)
Māori
2 entries- raurahatanga noun (the breaking up of an electromagnetic wave as it passes a geometric structure)
- rorahatanga noun (the breaking up of an electromagnetic wave as it passes a geometric structure)
Polish
1 entries- dyfrakcja noun (the breaking up of an electromagnetic wave as it passes a geometric structure)
Russian
1 entries- дифра́кция noun (the breaking up of an electromagnetic wave as it passes a geometric structure)
Spanish
1 entries- difracción noun (the breaking up of an electromagnetic wave as it passes a geometric structure)
Thai
1 entries- การเลี้ยวเบน noun (the breaking up of an electromagnetic wave as it passes a geometric structure)
Vietnamese
1 entries- nhiễu xạ noun (the breaking up of an electromagnetic wave as it passes a geometric structure)
Welsh
1 entries- diffreithiant noun (the breaking up of an electromagnetic wave as it passes a geometric structure)
Sample sentences
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Mary's monograph on crystal structures devoted an entire chapter to X-ray diffraction techniques.
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The results of the diffraction experiments were presented in a clear tabular format.
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