interference pattern

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noun Physics.

a series of alternating dark and bright bands produced as a result of light interference.

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Compare diffraction.

Origin of interference pattern

First recorded in 1930–35

Words nearby interference pattern

interfere, interference, interference drag, interference fit, interference microscope, interference pattern, interferential, interferogram, interferometer, interferon, interfertile

How to use interference pattern in a sentence

This interference pattern, he argued, appeared because light waves from each slit cancel out and add together at different locations.
Quantum Double-Slit Experiment Offers Hope for Earth-Size Telescope|Thomas Lewton|May 5, 2021|Quanta Magazine
However, if anyone monitors which slit each photon goes through, the interference pattern disappears.
Quantum Double-Slit Experiment Offers Hope for Earth-Size Telescope|Thomas Lewton|May 5, 2021|Quanta Magazine
And in so many of these events, the pattern of “blame the victim” was quickly in evidence.
In 2015, Let’s Try for More Compassion|Gene Robinson|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Finally free of Japanese interference, Korea elected its first autonomous government in almost half a century.
Propaganda, Protest, and Poisonous Vipers: The Cinema War in Korea|Rich Goldstein|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST

They were able to purchase weapons and plot attacks on the island without much interference.
Of Cuban Spies, a Baby, and a Filmmaker: The Strange Tale of the Cuban Five|Nina Strochlic|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Allowing the protests to go on with little interference was always a high-stakes gamble.
De Blasio and the New York City Protesters Have No Blood on Their Hands|Jacob Siegel|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I would have told them, ‘Do not get into a pattern in which you’re intimidated by these kinds of criminal attacks.
Should the U.S. Really Pay a Kim’s Ransom?|Kevin Bleyer|December 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The noise of the hammer is always in his ears, and his eye is upon the pattern of the vessel he maketh.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
Her eye fastened on a circular portion of the wall-paper pattern, and she felt that the whole room was revolving about her.
Hilda Lessways|Arnold Bennett
On Louis thanking the minister for his generous interference, Sinzendorff took his hand.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4|Jane Porter
The King arrived in Naples bent on maintaining his crown and on allowing no interference from the Emperor.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison
As far above the interference of man as is the government of the external universe, is that designated the covenant, as ordained.
The Ordinance of Covenanting|John Cunningham

Scientific definitions for interference pattern

interference pattern

An overall pattern that results when two or more waves interfere with each other, generally showing regions of constructive and of destructive interference. Optical interference patterns are analyzed in devices such as interferometers; the acoustic effect of beats is an example of an interference pattern.