diffractive

[dih-frak-tiv]

adjective

1. causing or pertaining to diffraction.

Other Word Forms

• diffractively adverb
• diffractiveness noun
• nondiffractive adjective
• nondiffractively adverb
• nondiffractiveness noun
• undiffractive adjective
• undiffractively adverb
• undiffractiveness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of diffractive¹

First recorded in 1820–30; diffract + -ive

Example Sentences

The team's paper, "Magnetically Programmed Diffractive Robotics," published in Science.

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The new diffractive robots are "going to blow that record out of the water," said Itai Cohen, professor of physics and co-author of the study.

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Diffractive robotics connects, for the first time, untethered robots with imaging techniques that depend on visible light diffraction -- the bending of a light wave when it passes through an opening or around something.

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To bypass this bottleneck, a few of us came up with the idea of revisiting an old technology called diffractive lenses.

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Diffractive lenses, left, are much thinner compared to similarly powerful refractive lenses, right.

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