Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several optical, acoustic, or radio-frequency instruments that use interference phenomena between a reference wave and an experimental wave or between two parts of an experimental wave to determine wavelengths and wave velocities, measure very small distances and thicknesses, and calculate indices of refraction.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An instrument for the measurement of lengths by means of the phenomena resulting from the interference of two rays of light.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physics) An instrument for measuring small movements, distances, or displacements by means of the interference of two beams of light; -- formerly also called also
refractometer , but that word now has a different meaning.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun physics any of several
instruments that use theinterference ofwaves to determinewavelengths and wavevelocities , determine refractive indicesmeasure smalldistances ,temperature changes,stresses , and many other useful measurements
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any measuring instrument that uses interference patterns to make accurate measurements of waves
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Examples
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Michelson's interferometer is capable of an application no less significant than those which we have already considered.
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The instrument in question, known as the interferometer, had previously yielded a remarkable series of results when applied in its various forms to the solution of fundamental problems.
The New Heavens George Ellery Hale 1903
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Chu was one of the originators of the atom interferometer, which is based on his Nobel Prize-winning development of cold laser traps.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Chu was one of the originators of the atom interferometer, which is based on his Nobel Prize-winning development of cold laser traps.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Chu was one of the originators of the atom interferometer, which is based on his Nobel Prize-winning development of cold laser traps.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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Chu was one of the originators of the atom interferometer, which is based on his Nobel Prize-winning development of cold laser traps.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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Chu was one of the originators of the atom interferometer, which is based on his Nobel Prize-winning development of cold laser traps.
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We have built an interferometer, which is a series of telescopes which are coordinated to operate as a single instrument on top of Mauna Kea.
Universe Today 2008
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In principle we could have a radio interferometer which is on the scale of the cis-lunar or even the inner solar system.
35 Radio Observatories Link to Break Record | Universe Today 2009
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When complete, ALMA will have at least 66 high-tech antennas operating together as an "interferometer", working as a single, huge telescope probing the sky in the millimetre and submillimetre wavelengths of light.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
bilby commented on the word interferometer
I hope these things are tamper-proof :-/
August 24, 2022