constructive interference

American  

noun

Physics.

1. the interference of two or more waves of equal frequency and phase, resulting in their mutual reinforcement and producing a single amplitude equal to the sum of the amplitudes of the individual waves.

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Example Sentences

This well-known fringe pattern phenomenon is caused by consistent constructive interference but has different characteristics when radio waves propagate around a neutron star.

From Science Daily

"In a typical X-ray diffraction experiment, one makes use of the constructive interference of the X-rays scattered from the periodically aligned atoms to measure their average positions," says Michael Först, one of the leading authors of this work.

From Science Daily

This is called constructive interference.

From Scientific American

With constructive interference, the detectors would register 4,000 pairs of photons per second.

From Scientific American

As has been shown previously7, the relative phase of these two fields determines the strength of the combined electron–light interactions: in-phase fields can enhance the interaction in a kind of constructive interference, whereas the two fields can cancel each other out if they have opposite phases.

From Nature