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INTERFERENCE
interference
(noun) (American football) blocking a player’s path with your body; “he ran interference for the quarterback”
hindrance, hinderance, interference
(noun) the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding
hindrance, hinderance, hitch, preventive, preventative, encumbrance, incumbrance, interference
(noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
intervention, interference
(noun) a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries
noise, interference, disturbance
(noun) electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
interference (countable and uncountable, plural interferences)
The act of interfering with something, or something that interferes.
(sports) The illegal obstruction of an opponent in some ball games.
(physics) An effect caused by the superposition of two systems of waves.
A distortion on a broadcast signal due to atmospheric or other effects.
(US, legal) In United States patent law, an inter partes proceeding to determine the priority issues of multiple patent applications; a priority contest.
(chess) The interruption of the line between an attacked piece and its defender by sacrificially interposing a piece.
Antonyms
• noninterference
Source: Wiktionary
In`ter*fer"ence, n. Etym: [See Interfere.]
1. The act or state of interfering; as, the stoppage of a machine by the interference of some of its parts; a meddlesome interference in the business of others.
2. (Physics)
Definition: The mutual influence, under certain conditions, of two streams of light, or series of pulsations of sound, or, generally, two waves or vibrations of any kind, producing certain characteristic phenomena, as colored fringes, dark bands, or darkness, in the case of light, silence or increased intensity in sounds; neutralization or superposition of waves generally.
Note: The term is most commonly applied to light, and the undulatory theory of light affords the proper explanation of the phenomena which are considered to be produced by the superposition of waves, and are thus substantially identical in their origin with the phenomena of heat, sound, waves of water, and the like.
3. (Patent Law)
Definition: The act or state of interfering, or of claiming a right to the same invention. 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.
– Interference fringe. (Optics) See Fringe.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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