English Online Dictionary. What means interference? What does interference mean?
English
Etymology
From interfere + -ence. The sense in physics was likely introduced by English polymath Thomas Young, which he used as early as 1801 in a paper in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌɪntəɹˈfiɹɪns/
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˈfɪəɹəns/
Noun
interference (countable and uncountable, plural interferences)
- The act of interfering with something, or something that interferes.
- (sports) The illegal obstruction of an opponent in some ball games.
- (physics) An effect caused by the superposition of two systems of waves.
- A distortion on a broadcast signal due to atmospheric or other effects.
- (US, law) In United States patent law, an inter partes proceeding to determine the priority issues of multiple patent applications; a priority 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 two languages inappropriately transfers lexical items or structures from one to the other.
Antonyms
- noninterference
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
interference (third-person singular simple present interferences, present participle interferencing, simple past and past participle interferenced)
- (nonstandard) To interfere.