Diffract: alternatives and connections

The act of wandering; deviation, especially from truth or moral rectitude, from the natural state, or from a type.

The science which treats of rays of light, especially of the actinic or chemical rays.

To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a cu…

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to br…

Disruption; a separation and dispersion of the parts or members; as, a break-up of an assembly or dinner party; a break-up of the gove…

Making a beat without recoil; giving indications by a single beat or excursion; -- said of galvanometers and other instruments in whic…

To compound or mix with that is already compound; to compound a second time.

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Causing deflection.

That which deflects, as a diaphragm in a furnace, or a cone in a lamp (to deflect and mingle air and gases and help combustion).

See Deflection.

A bending or turning aside; deflection.

To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence o…

To separate into integrant parts; to reduce to fragments or to powder; to break up, or cause to fall to pieces, as a rock, by blows of…

Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint.

To divide into separate parts; to cut in pieces; to separate and expose the parts of, as an animal or a plant, for examination and to…

To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear; -- used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected…