Huygens-Fresnel principle

English

Etymology

Named after Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens and French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel.

Proper noun

the Huygens-Fresnel principle

1. A method of analysis applied to problems of wave propagation, stating that every point on a wavefront is itself the source of spherical wavelets, and the secondary wavelets emanating from different points mutually interfere.