OFFICIOUSNESS Synonyms: 26 Similar and Opposite Words

officiousness

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as in interference

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Getting around interference The biggest technical hurdle in spectrum sharing is interference – what happens when two signals overlap and scramble each other, like two people shouting different things in your ear at the same time.

— Aylin Yener, The Conversation, 8 Sep. 2026
When the waves were reunited, the team used an effect called interference, which occurs when the peaks and troughs of two misaligned waves meet, to measure changes in the free-falling wave.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 8 Sep. 2026

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