Usually means: Bending of waves around obstacles.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. diffract: Merriam-Webster
  2. diffract: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. diffract: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. diffract: Collins English Dictionary
  5. diffract: Vocabulary.com
  6. diffract: Wordnik
  7. diffract: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. diffract: Wiktionary
  9. diffract: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. diffract: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. diffract: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. diffract: Dictionary.com
  13. Diffract: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. diffract: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. diffract: Rhymezone
  16. Diffract: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. diffract: FreeDictionary.org
  18. diffract: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. diffract: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. diffract: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. diffract: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. diffract: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. diffract: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. diffract: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (diffract)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To cause diffraction
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To undergo diffraction

Similar:
disperse, refringe, refract, fracture, fract, scatter, fragment, interdiffuse, diffide, forspread, more...

Opposite:
focus, converge, gather, unite

Types:
X-ray, gamma ray, neutron, electron, delta ray, alpha ray, beta ray, cosmic ray, more...

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Similar:
disperse, refringe, refract, fracture, fract, scatter, fragment, interdiffuse, diffide, forspread, more...

Opposite:
focus, converge, gather, unite

Types:
X-ray, gamma ray, neutron, electron, delta ray, alpha ray, beta ray, cosmic ray, more...



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