In dictionaries:
Fraunhofer diffraction
Diffraction through apertures, analyzed mathematically.
Fraunhofer lines
Absorption lines in the solar spectrum.
Fraunhofer line
(physics) any of a series of dark lines in the solar spectrum; due to the absorption of light by atoms and molecules in the Sun's atmosphere
fraunhofer spectrum
Fraunhofer Society
a German publicly-owned research organization with 76institutes spread throughout Germany, each focusing on different fields of applied science (as opposed to the Max Planck Society, which works primarily on basic science).
fraunhofer gesellschaft
German research organization, technology innovation.
Joseph von Fraunhofer
Joseph Ritter von Fraunhofer (6 March 1787 – 7 June 1826) was a German physicist and optical lens manufacturer.
fraunhofer joseph von
Fraunhofer FDK AAC
an open-source library for encoding and decoding digital audio in the Advanced Audio Coding format.
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