How to Use diffraction in a Sentence

diffraction

noun

• When light passes through a lens, the light gets spread out through diffraction.
  — Katarina Zimmer, JSTOR Daily, 14 Aug. 2025
• The bright stars with the diffraction spikes are closer to us in the foreground.
  — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 11 Sep. 2025
• The diffraction of light through the spores truly transforms the scene.
  — New Atlas, 29 Mar. 2026
• Since these mirrors are put together in a hexagon, there are six main diffraction spikes.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 Jan. 2024
• In this near-field regime, the light bypasses the diffraction limit and probes nanoscale features.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Feb. 2026
• This means that light passes through the muscle fibers (myosin) and causes diffraction — or the slight bending of light.
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
• The new stars are bright red orbs, typically captured with diffraction spikes.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 20 Oct. 2022
• Cloud iridescence occurs when small water droplets or small ice crystals scatter the sun's light through a process called diffraction.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 1 July 2021
• This is a fundamental property of light called diffraction, and it can’t be avoided.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 30 Aug. 2024
• The largest of these appear larger, closer, brighter, and more fully resolved with 8-point diffraction spikes.
  — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 13 July 2022
• The telescope also captured a number of large, bright stars with prominent diffraction spikes.
  — Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 3 Mar. 2025
• This makes the foreground stars stand out even more, with beaming diffraction spikes emanating outward.
  — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 15 June 2026
• Samsung’s nano-prisms use diffraction, rather than refraction, to bend the angle of incoming light.
  — Gwendolyn Rak, IEEE Spectrum, 13 Dec. 2023
• All camera lenses lose some detail at very narrow f-stops, a result of optical diffraction.
  — PC Magazine, 9 Sep. 2025
• But diffraction of the incoming light makes the pictures imperfect.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 19 Aug. 2017
• The top image shows the visible diffraction pattern; the bottom shows extra light in the infrared.
  — Lisa Grossman, WIRED, 16 Aug. 2010
• Many of the stars exhibit a bright glow and four points known as diffraction spikes, which are caused by starlight bending around Hubble's mirrors.
  — Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 31 Mar. 2025
• The team then used X-ray diffraction to capture atomic-scale snapshots within a billionth of a second.
  — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 21 Nov. 2025
• Khan pointed out a group of students trying to figure out if the wavelength of light will impact a laser's diffraction into water.
  — Brittany Trang, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 June 2021
• By chance, in another set of images, the background star ended up right in the middle of a diffraction artifact.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 June 2017
• The space agency also noted that the core of the merging collision is so bright a snowflake-like diffraction spike occurs on the image.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 25 Oct. 2022
• The diffraction spikes here come from a feeding supermassive black hole that contains more than 24 million times the mass of our sun.
  — Fionna M. D. Samuels, Scientific American, 21 July 2022
• Right, because diffraction of the beam limits the size of the spot, as a function of the transmitter size and the frequency of the microwaves.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Apr. 2024
• Between the speakers is a door, textured for sound diffraction, that opens to reveal storage for up to 40 of your favorite records.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 16 May 2026
• Iridescence forms as a result of diffraction, which isn’t to be confused with refraction, which is the cause of rainbows and halos.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2022
• The near-field light overcomes the diffraction limit of light and provides a much higher resolution than far-field light in microscopy.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 10 May 2017
• To solve this mystery, researchers used neutron diffraction for the first time to look deep inside a thick, functioning solid-state battery.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 13 July 2026
• Most prominent in this image is Triton, above Neptune, with bright diffraction spikes.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 21 Sep. 2022
• Light from the galaxy passes through a prism or reflects off a diffraction grating in a telescope, which captures the intensity of light from blue to red.
  — Chris Impey, The Conversation, 24 Jan. 2025
• These particles were sent through three diffraction gratings made from ultraviolet laser light.
  — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 22 Jan. 2026