interference : Idioms & Phrases

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Interference figures

  • (Optics), the figures observed when certain sections of crystallized bodies are viewed in converging polarized light; thus, a section of a uniaxial crystal, cut normal to the vertical axis, shows a series of concentric colored rings with a single black cross; so called because produced by the interference of luminous waves.
Webster 1913

Interference fringe

  • noun one of the light or dark bands produced by the interference and diffraction of light
    fringe.
WordNet
  • . (Optics) See Fringe.
Webster 1913