noun
interference
ihn-tuh-FEER-ruhns
noun
1
The act of interfering with, or disrupting, something.
"The team complained about political interference in the investigation."
2
Unwanted noise or distortion affecting a signal, such as radio or TV.
"Static interference made the radio broadcast hard to hear."
3
An effect produced when overlapping waves combine, in physics.
"The experiment demonstrated interference between two beams of light."
How to Use Interference
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishUnwanted disruption — whether someone meddling, a garbled signal, or overlapping waves in physics.
Common pairings
radio interference
political interference
wave interference
Word Forms
interferenced past tense, interferences plural, interferences singular
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Etymology
From interfere plus the suffix -ence; the physics sense was popularized by the scientist Thomas Young around 1801.