The physics of waves describes their behavior and wave phenomena such as reflection, refraction, dispersion, and interference. Interference is the phenomenon observed when two traveling wave trains coexist in the same medium. Consider single frequency...

Interference is the interaction of two or more waves. Waves move along their direction of propagation characterized by crests and troughs. Wherever two or more waves, either from one source by different paths or from different sources, reach the same...

The reduction in performance that occurs when a critical task-relevant process or REPRESENTATION is disrupted or displaced by another of a similar type. Interference can also refer to the underlying processes responsible for this disruption or...

The influence of one linguistic system on another in either (a) the individual speaker ( transfer) or (b) the speech community ( borrowing, language contact). In an individual, interference is seen as a source of errors ( error analysis, contrastive...

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One day after a car bombing killed a top Lebanese military leader, President Bush said Thursday that interference by Syria and its allies "aimed at intimidating the Lebanese people" must stop.A car bombing on Wednesday killed Brig. Gen. Francois Hajj, a candidate to become head...

The prime minister on Monday warned Iraqi Kurds against interfering in southeastern Turkey, where the Kurdish majority is fighting Turkish security forces, saying "the price for them will be very high."Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was responding to Massoud Barzani, leader of the Kurdish autonomous...

Lebanese presidential elections must be free of violence and foreign interference, the U.N. Security Council said Thursday, joining an international chorus pressuring the Arab country's rival political forces to advance a process whose delay could split Lebanon apart.The council's press statement was the latest effort...

A San Francisco Bay area subscriber to Comcast Corp.'s high-speed Internet service has sued the company, alleging it engages in unfair business practices by interfering with subscribers' file sharing.Subscriber Jon Hart based his claims on the results of an investigation by the Associated Press published...