interference fringe

1. 1.

   one of the light or dark bands produced by the interference and diffraction of light

   Synonymsfringe

   Broaderoptical phenomenon

Questions about interference fringe

What does interference fringe mean?

interference fringe means "one of the light or dark bands produced by the interference and diffraction of light".

What is another word for interference fringe?

Close synonyms include fringe. 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 interference fringe a common word?

interference fringe 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.