ptychography

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noun

A technique that aims to solve the diffraction-pattern phase problem by interfering adjacent Bragg reflections coherently and thereby determining their relative phase.

OriginAncient Greek πτυχή →
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Meanings

nounptychography (uncountable)
  1. uncountablenatural sciencesA technique that aims to solve the diffraction-pattern phase problem by interfering adjacent Bragg reflections coherently and thereby determining their relative phase.

    It was recently suggested that the transmitted phase can be directly measured in ptychography experiments performed on nanocrystal samples.

    2015, O.Yu. Gorobtsov, I.A. Vartanyants, “Phase of the transmitted wave in the dynamical theory and quasi-kinematical approximation”, in arXiv

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekπτυχή“fold”
  2. Englishptychography

From ptycho- (compare ptychonome) + -graphy, from Ancient Greek πτυχή (ptukhḗ, “fold”) + γράφειν (gráphein, “write”).

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Translations

French ptychographie
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German Ptychografie
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Polish ptychografia
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Russian птихография
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ptychography. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ptychography

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“ptychography.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ptychography. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ptychography,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ptychography.

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