Frominterfere +-ence. The sense in physics was likely introduced by English polymathThomas Young, which he used as early as 1801 in a paper in thePhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
interference (countable anduncountable,pluralinterferences)
- The act ofinterfering with something, or something thatinterferes.
1961 March, B.A. Haresnape, “Design on the railway”, inTrains Illustrated, page139:Somewhat impeded by constant politicalinterference of one sort or another, British Railways are nevertheless pressing ahead with a mammoth modernisation programme; [...]
2018 February 21, Dan Shive,El Goonish Shive (webcomic),Comic for Wednesday, Feb 21, 2018:"With magic in limited use and hidden, it was possible to enhance the variousmagic resistances of humans, and to keep certain forms of magic from being possible. If magic enters common usage, thisinterference becomes infeasible."
- (sports) Theillegalobstruction of anopponent in some ball games.
They were glued to the TV, as the referee called out a fifteen yard penalty forinterference.
- (physics) Aneffect caused by thesuperposition of twosystems ofwaves.
- Adistortion on abroadcastsignal due toatmospheric or other effects.
They wanted to watch the game on TV, but there was too muchinterference to even make out the score on the tiny screen.
- (US, law) In United Statespatent law, aninter partesproceeding to determine thepriority issues of multiple patentapplications; apriority contest.
- (chess) The interruption of the line between an attacked piece and its defender by sacrificially interposing a piece.
- (linguistics) The situation where a person who knows twolanguages inappropriatelytransfers lexical items or structures from one to the other.
act of interfering with something, or something that interferes
- Arabic:تَدَاخُل m(tadāḵul)
- Belarusian:умяша́нне n(umjašánnje)
- Bulgarian:наме́са (bg) f(namésa),вмеша́телство (bg) n(vmešátelstvo)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:阻礙 /阻碍 (zh)(zǔ'ài),干涉 (zh)(gānshè),干預 (zh)(gānyù)
- Danish:interferens c
- Dutch:bemoeien (nl) n
- Finnish:häirintä (fi),häiritseminen (fi),väliintulo (fi),puuttuminen (fi)(act);häiriö (fi),häiriötekijä(sthg that interferes)
- French:ingérence (fr) f
- Galician:inxerencia (gl),interferencia (gl) f,intromisión (gl) f
- German:Einmischung (de) f
- Indonesian:campur tangan (id)
- Irish:éaradh m
- Italian:intromissione (it) f
- Malay:gangguan (ms)
- Maori:whawhenga
- Persian:تداخل (fa)(tadâxol)
- Polish:ingerencja (pl) f,wtrącanie się (pl) n,interferencja (pl) f
- Portuguese:interferência (pt) f
- Romanian:interferență (ro) f
- Russian:вмеша́тельство (ru) n(vmešátelʹstvo),поме́ха (ru) f(poméxa),препя́тствие (ru) n(prepjátstvije)
- Scots:intermeddling
- Spanish:injerencia (es) f,interferencia (es) f,intromisión (es) f
- Swedish:interferens (sv) c
- Turkish:engelleme (tr),müdahale (tr)
- Ukrainian:втруча́ння n(vtručánnja)
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illegal obstruction of an opponent in some ball games
effect caused by the superposition of two systems of waves
distortion on a broadcast signal due to atmospheric or other effects
legal, patent law: inter partes proceeding to determine the priority issues of multiple patent applications
chess: type of defensive move
Translations to be checked
interference (third-person singular simple presentinterferences,present participleinterferencing,simple past and past participleinterferenced)
- (nonstandard) Tointerfere.
2000, PierCarlo Nicola,Mainstream Mathematical Economics in the 20th Century, Springer Science & Business Media,→ISBN,page172:In economic terms, the two production processes can be simultaneously implemented withoutinterferencing between themselves.
