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See also: interférence
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From interfere + -ence. The sense in physics was likely introduced by Thomas Young, which he used as early as 1802 in a paper in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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Noun[edit]
interference (countable and uncountable, plural interferences)
- The act of interfering with something, or something that interferes.
- 1961 March, B.A. Haresnape, “Design on the railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 139:
- Somewhat impeded by constant political interference of one sort or another, British Railways are nevertheless pressing ahead with a mammoth modernisation programme; [...]
- (sports) The illegal obstruction of an opponent in some ball games.
- They were glued to the TV, as the referee called out a fifteen yard penalty for interference.
- (physics) An effect caused by the superposition of two systems of waves.
- A distortion on a broadcast signal due to atmospheric or other effects.
- They wanted to watch the game on TV, but there was too much interference to even make out the score on the tiny screen.
- (US, law) In United States patent law, an inter partes proceeding to determine the priority issues of multiple patent applications; a priority contest.
- (chess) The interruption of the line between an attacked piece and its defender by sacrificially interposing a piece.
- (linguistics) The situation where a person who knows two languages inappropriately transfers lexical items or structures from one to the other.
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Translations[edit]
act of interfering with something, or something that interferes
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illegal obstruction of an opponent in some ball games
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effect caused by the superposition of two systems of waves
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distortion on a broadcast signal due to atmospheric or other effects
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legal, patent law: inter partes proceeding to determine the priority issues of multiple patent applications
chess: type of defensive move
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