Beugung — meaning in English
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English meaning
- declension noun A gradual decline, decay, or fall.
- diffraction noun The bending of a wave as it passes around an obstacle.
- inflection noun (grammar) The way words change their form to show grammatical features such as tense or number.
Senses
Beugung is used for these senses in English:
- diffraction (quantum mechanics) The breaking up of an electromagnetic wave as it passes a geometric structure (e.g. a slit), followed by reconstruction of the wave by interference.
- inflection (grammar, uncountable) The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.
declension — full definition
- noun A gradual decline, decay, or fall.
- noun (grammar) The act of listing the different forms a noun, pronoun, or adjective can take.
- noun (grammar) A list showing the different forms of a noun, pronoun, or adjective.
- noun (grammar) A class of nouns, pronouns, or adjectives that share the same pattern of endings.
diffraction — full definition
- noun The bending of a wave as it passes around an obstacle.
- noun In quantum mechanics, the way an electromagnetic wave splits apart on meeting a feature such as a slit, before recombining afterward through interference.
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