0 past simple and past participle of diffract --
1 to break up light or sound waves by making them go through a narrow space or across an edge --
The result (5.4) clearly reveals the structure of the diffracted pressure field near the trailing edge.
The patch is embedded inside a diffracted wave pattern which is about five times larger than the patch itself.
The supersonic patch and the fan are embedded inside an apparently continuous self-similar diffracted wave pattern behind the triple point.
With zero flow, diffracted waves were spherical as expected.
This task was finished in 1818 after difficult theoretical work to determine the components of the original diffracted wave.
In general, diffracted rays are induced by rays that form discontinuities in the standard geometrical optics solution.
This vortex then travels along the holder behind the diffracted shock wave.
As the first approximation, the spectrum was assumed to be diffracted in the first-order only.
