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DIFFRACTION GRATING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Optical device consisting of a surface with many parallel grooves in it; disperses a beam of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into its wavelengths to produce its spectrum
Synonyms:
diffraction grating; grating
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("diffraction grating" is a kind of...):
optical device (a device for producing or controlling light)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "diffraction grating"):
echelon (a diffraction grating consisting of a pile of plates of equal thickness arranged stepwise with a constant offset)
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