Diffraction is the process of light bending around an obstacle or spreading out after it moves through a small space. If you study physics, you'll learn about the diffraction of light waves.
The deflection and decomposition of light in passing by the edges of opaque bodies or through narrow slits, causing the appearance of parallel bands or fringes of prismatic colors, as by the action of a grating of fine lines or bars.
Noun
when light passes sharp edges or goes through narrow slits the rays are deflected and produce fringes of light and dark bands
n.
The deflection and decomposition of light in passing
by the edges of opaque bodies or through narrow slits, causing the
appearance of parallel bands or fringes of prismatic colors, as by the
action of a grating of fine lines or bars.
Diffraction
Remarked by Grimaldi (1665), and referred by him to a property of light which he called diffraction.
The deflection and decomposition of light in passing by the edges of opaque bodies or through narrow slits, causing the appearance of parallel bands or fringes of prismatic colors, as by the action of a grating of fine lines or bars.
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