diffractals

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A form of diffractal — An acoustic diffraction pattern produced when sound waves are diffracted through fractal-patterned apertures

Scrabble 20

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of diffractal

    When plane waves diffract through fractal-patterned apertures, the resulting far-field profiles or diffractals also exhibit iterated, self-similar features.

    2015, Matthew Moocarme, Luat T. Vuong, “Robustness via Diffractal Architectures”, in arXiv
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