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OXFORD DICTIONARY
difficulty | diffidence | diffident | diffidently | difflugia | diffract | diffraction | diffraction grating | diffuse | diffuse nebula | diffused

diffract

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Verb (usu participle)
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dif=fract

OXFORD DICTIONARY

diffract, v.tr. Physics (of the edge of an opaque body, a narrow slit, etc.) break up (a beam of light) into a series of dark or light bands or coloured spectra, or (a beam of radiation or particles) into a series of alternately high and low intensities.

Derivative
diffraction n. diffractive adj. diffractively adv.
Etymology
L diffringere diffract- (as DIS-, frangere break)

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