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diffractal

diffractal noun: an acoustic diffraction pattern produced when sound waves are diffracted through fractal-patterned apertures.

Noun

diffractal (plural diffractals)

  1. An acoustic diffraction pattern produced when sound waves are diffracted through fractal-patterned apertures
    • Here we show that this specific architecture enables robust signal processing and spatial multiplexing: arbitrary parts of a diffractal contain sufficient information to recreate the entire original sparse signal..2015, Matthew Moocarme, Luat T. Vuong, “Robustness via Diffractal Architectures”, in arXiv

Forms of diffractal

pluraldiffractals

Questions about diffractal

What does diffractal mean?
Diffractal means an acoustic diffraction pattern produced when sound waves are diffracted through fractal-patterned apertures.
What part of speech is diffractal?
Diffractal is a noun.
What is the plural of diffractal?
The plural of diffractal is diffractals.

Words near diffractal in the dictionary

  1. difformities
  2. difformity
  3. diffract
  4. diffractable
  5. diffractaic acid
  6. diffractal
  7. diffractals
  8. diffracted
  9. diffracting
  10. diffraction
  11. diffraction grating

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