Definition of "diffracting" []

• Present participle of diffract. (verb)

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• "While acknowledging the skepticism of so many directed at this tsunami cloaking device, we have to confess to being quite mesmerized, to the detriment of our rational faculties, by the incredibly poetic image of these barriers submerged in the gloomy depths: a flooded forest of concrete colossi diffracting sunlight into its own prismatic corridors."
• "In all of the following examples, ice crystals or water droplets act like prisms — refracting, reflecting, diffracting and dispersing the light that shines on, or passes through them to produce these startling arrays."
• "Another well-known example are so-called ‘non-diffracting’ beams, which maintain their original shape and size without spreading on propagation."