diffraction grating

1. 1.

   optical device consisting of a surface with many parallel grooves in it; disperses a beam of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into its wavelengths to produce its spectrum

   Synonymsgrating

   Broaderoptical device

   Narrowerechelon

Questions about diffraction grating

What does diffraction grating mean?

diffraction grating means "optical device consisting of a surface with many parallel grooves in it; disperses a beam of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into its wavelengths to produce its spectrum".

What is another word for diffraction grating?

Close synonyms include grating. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is diffraction grating a common word?

diffraction grating is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.