difraksi

Indonesian

Etymology

Internationalism, borrowed from Dutch diffractie, from French diffraction, from New Latin diffrāctiō (in which coined by Francesco Maria Grimaldi), from Latin diffrāctus, past participle of Latin diffringo (“to shatter, to break into pieces”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.ˈfrak.si/
• Rhymes: -si, -i
• Hyphenation: di‧frak‧si

Noun

difraksi (plural difraksi-difraksi, first-person possessive difraksiku, second-person possessive difraksimu, third-person possessive difraksinya)

1. (optics) diffraction: The bending of a wave around an obstacle.

   Synonyms: (product) belauan, (process) pembelauan (Standard Malay)

Further reading

• “difraksi” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.