How to Use diffraction in a Sentence

diffraction

noun

• This means that light passes through the muscle fibers (myosin) and causes diffraction — or the slight bending of light.
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
• The diffraction pattern of the X-rays allows researchers to build up a picture of the internal structure of the protein.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2020
• Since these mirrors are put together in a hexagon, there are six main diffraction spikes.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 Jan. 2024
• In this image, the Sunrise Arc appears as a red streak just below the diffraction spike at the 5 o’clock position.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 10 Aug. 2023
• The diffraction spikes here come from a feeding supermassive black hole that contains more than 24 million times the mass of our sun.
  — Fionna M. D. Samuels, Scientific American, 21 July 2022
• The space agency also noted that the core of the merging collision is so bright a snowflake-like diffraction spike occurs on the image.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 25 Oct. 2022
• The top image shows the visible diffraction pattern; the bottom shows extra light in the infrared.
  — Lisa Grossman, WIRED, 16 Aug. 2010
• The largest of these appear larger, closer, brighter, and more fully resolved with 8-point diffraction spikes.
  — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 13 July 2022
• Of course, there are always going to be the usual diffraction spikes that are caused by James Webb’s observations.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 2 Sep. 2022
• By chance, in another set of images, the background star ended up right in the middle of a diffraction artifact.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 June 2017
• The new stars are bright red orbs, typically captured with diffraction spikes.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 20 Oct. 2022
• Iridescence forms as a result of diffraction, which isn’t to be confused with refraction, which is the cause of rainbows and halos.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2022
• When alignment was completed on 11 March, the image from NIRcam showed a single star with six spikes caused by diffraction.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 6 July 2022
• Bright stars stand out with their six, long, sharply defined diffraction spikes—an effect due to Webb’s six-sided mirror segments.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 7 July 2022
• In addition to the prominent star at the top of the image and a handful of other stars with six diffraction spikes, the rest of the objects in this image are distant galaxies.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 1 May 2024
• In this case, the corona is caused by a diffraction pattern, resulting from moonlight bent around the edges of supercooled water droplets.
  — Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2020
• The camera zooms in on the surface of the stone, and soon we’re suspended in a swell of C.G.I. — pink-flecked shards of bewildering diffraction, a tunnel of blithe and kaleidoscopic light.
  — Jamie Lauren Keiles, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2019
• Khan pointed out a group of students trying to figure out if the wavelength of light will impact a laser's diffraction into water.
  — Brittany Trang, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 June 2021
• Cloud iridescence occurs when small water droplets or small ice crystals scatter the sun's light through a process called diffraction.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 1 July 2021
• But diffraction of the incoming light makes the pictures imperfect.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 19 Aug. 2017
• Samsung’s nano-prisms use diffraction, rather than refraction, to bend the angle of incoming light.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 13 Dec. 2023
• That allows the molecular details of a sample to be probed every few nanoseconds using X-ray diffraction.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 Aug. 2017
• By using x-ray diffraction, Klavko figured out ways to get a very detailed look at very small, very thin layers of crystal materials.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2022
• Most prominent in this image is Triton, above Neptune, with bright diffraction spikes.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 21 Sep. 2022
• This was inspired by the paintings of Rembrandt and Vermeer and involved principles of light diffraction while adding volume and textures to characters.
  — Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 8 July 2024
• Neptune’s large and unusual moon, Triton, dominates this Webb portrait of Neptune as a very bright point of light sporting diffraction spikes.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 21 Sep. 2022
• Hold it up to the light, see light itself broken down within the shining layers—reflection, refraction, diffraction.
  — Greg Delanty, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2022
• Most light sail designs simply reflect the light to get a push, but the new design uses a different process known as diffraction that bends the incoming light to also generate a sideways force.
  — Yuen Yiu, Discover Magazine, 2 Jan. 2020
• As a result, the shadow appears surrounded by a spectacular rainbow halo caused by the diffraction of light.
  — Kathleen Rellihan, Outside Online, 14 May 2022
• Resolution starts to drop at smaller f-stops, an unavoidable result of diffraction.
  — PCMAG, 15 July 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024