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.

From Science Daily

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.

From Science Daily

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.

From Science Daily

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

From Salon

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

From Salon