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The position of the beams diffracted from a surface enables us, at least in many cases, to determine the arrangement of the atoms in the surface.

G.P. Thomson - Nobel Lecture 1965

He's big and torpid in red flannel, red spiderlines diffracted across his nose and cheeks.

Be My Huckleberry Frankie Sachs 2011

Beyond a critical angle, light will not be diffracted, but will rather be reflected.

Aerosols 2010

To give you an example of how a diffracted field would differ from a field propagated geometrically, we consider the case of light traveling through a narrow slit in a metal plate:

Optics basics: What is a wave? Part III: Diffraction « Skulls in the Stars 2007

The light is distributed into several diffracted fields, of which one is called the reconstructed field that propagates through the plate as a replica of the object field which previously hit the plate.

Lippmann's and Gabor's Revolutionary Approach to Imaging 2005

And each of the colours was diffracted and diffused by the dancing waters.

At The Spaniard's Convenience Mayo, Margaret 2006

For those not familiar with these terms, diversity involves the use of different defect detection mechanisms such as specular response, diffracted edge waves, mode conversions etc. to safeguard against intrinsic weaknesses in one particular mechanism.

Nature Again « Climate Audit 2006

Character is externalised, diffracted; parts of ourselves may as much lie in our relationships with other, our work life, our online life, our shopping, our music libraries, our Flickr accounts, our blog lives, Life2, WoW: and that the modern way to show and discuss character is in terms of these externalities.

Know thyself? 2006

For he bore at the very top of it the seal and stamp of his patent — the manifest impact of a bullet, diffracted by the power of Pong.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

X-rays, it was realized by Max von Laue that such rays were diffracted when passing through crystalline solids, like light passing an optical grating.

The Nobel Prizes in Physics 1901-2000 2000

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