interference
Etymology Pronunciation Noun
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Etymology Pronunciation Noun
interference
- The act of interfering with something, or something that interferes.
- (sports) The illegal obstruction of an opponent in some ball games.
- They were glued to the TV, as the referee called out a fifteen yard penalty for interference.
- (physics) An effect caused by the superposition of two systems of waves.
- A distortion on a broadcast signal due to atmospheric or other effects.
- They wanted to watch the game on TV, but there was too much interference to even make out the score on the tiny screen.
- (US, legal) 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.
- French: ingérence
- German: Einmischung
- Italian: intromissione
- Portuguese: interferência
- Russian: вмеша́тельство
- Spanish: injerencia, interferencia, intromisión
- French: interférence
- German: Interferenz, Störung
- Portuguese: interferência
- Russian: интерфере́нция
- Spanish: interferencia
- German: Störung
- Portuguese: interferência
- Russian: поме́хи
interference (interferences, present participle interferencing; simple past and past participle interferenced)
- (nonstandard) To interfere.
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