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 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
• 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
• Notably, the diffraction spikes that surround the brightest stars of the image were formed when an intense point source of light interacted with the four vanes inside Hubble that support the telescope’s secondary mirror.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 28 Jan. 2023
• This artist's concept shows the (greatly exaggerated) diffraction pattern of starlight that occurs when an asteroid passes in front of the star.
  — Alison Klesman, Discover Magazine, 19 Apr. 2019
• The odd top-like shape, West said, might be attributed to diffraction spikes from the glare, similar to someone taking a picture of a flashlight shining directly into a camera lens.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2021

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024