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Term: scattering
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Definition: a process in which an incident wave, which meets a rough surface or a set of very numerous and randomly located obstacles or other irregularities gives rise to waves not interpretable by geometrical optics

NOTE – Scattering continuously distributes the energy of the incident wave in all directions with no well-defined phase relation between the waves scattered in different directions.


Publication date:1995-09
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