interferometry love

Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun physics the design and use of optical or radio interferometers

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word interferometry.

Examples

  • Since the end of the 1970s, hologram interferometry is a standard measurement technology for deformation and vibration analysis

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

  • Consequently, the team turned to a technique called interferometry, which involves combining the light coming from several telescopes to yield resolution equivalent to a telescope as large as the distance between them.

    New Images Provide Insight Into Our Sun's Ultimate Fate | Universe Today 2009

  • Consequently, the team turned to a technique called interferometry, which involves combining the light coming from several telescopes to yield resolution equivalent to a telescope as large as the distance between them.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • Consequently, the team turned to a technique called interferometry, which involves combining the light coming from several telescopes to yield resolution equivalent to a telescope as large as the distance between them.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • The other, TPF-I, relied on a technique called interferometry, where starlight is split into separate beams and recombined so that it annihilates itself, like two out-of-phase waves colliding in a pond to form a placid surface.

    SEEDMAGAZINE.COM 2009

  • Consequently, the team turned to a technique called interferometry, which involves combining the light coming from several telescopes to yield resolution equivalent to a telescope as large as the distance between them.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • And it points to the growing maturity of the kind of interferometry used here, linking numerous small antennae on the impressive new hardware of the growing Allen site.

    Centauri Dreams 2008

  • In addition to many projects related to imaging, adaptive optics and interferometry that NASA has carried out with the Keck telescopes, the recent mapping of the sources of methane on Mars is just one example of important planetary science being done by NASA with these instruments.

    Weiler Seeks to Cut NASA Access to Keck Observatory - NASA Watch 2009

  • The optical sleight of hand used by the astronomers combined the telescope's "adaptive optics" with a technique called aperture mask interferometry: using a a deformable mirror to rapidly correct for atmospheric distortions to starlight.

    New planet, the youngest ever found, is revealed by cosmic trick photography 2011

  • He gave us our big "introduction to radio interferometry" talks at the beginning of the summer, so I learned a lot from him.

    Another NRAO TV Appearance! Nicole 2009

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.