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What does diffracts mean?

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Verb
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of diffract
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His lab has developed a chip device that diffracts light in the presence of certain antibodies.
The beam initially diffracts linearly and self-focusses slowly into a soliton.
It is a quirk of nature that the way light diffracts through a grating means that there is an increase in dispersion with increasing order.
These optical components are called gratings because they are grooved with lines off which light bounces, or diffracts.
Since a zone plate diffracts light, a zone plate image is closely related to a pinhole image.

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