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n. The act or an instance of hindering, obstructing, or impeding.

n. Something that hinders, obstructs, or impedes.

n. Sports Illegal obstruction or hindrance of an opposing player, such as hindrance of a receiver by a defender in football, hindrance of a fielder by a base runner in baseball, or checking a player not in possession of the puck in ice hockey.

n. Football The legal blocking of defensive tacklers to protect and make way for the ball carrier.

n. Physics The variation of wave amplitude that occurs when waves of the same or different frequency come together.

n. Electronics The inhibition or prevention of clear reception of broadcast signals.

n. Electronics The distorted portion of a received signal.

n. The negative or distorting effect that new learning can have on previous learning or that previous learning can have on new learning.

n. The act of interfering with something, or something that interferes.

n. The illegal obstruction of an opponent in some ball games.

n. An effect caused by the superposition of two systems of waves, such as a distortion on a broadcast signal due to atmospheric or other effects.

n. In United States patent law, an inter partes proceeding to determine the priority issues of multiple patent applications; a priority contest.

n. The act or state of interfering

n. The mutual influence, under certain conditions, as from streams of light, or pulsations of sound, or, generally, two waves or vibrations of any kind, producing certain characteristic phenomena, as colored fringes, dark bands, or darkness, in the case of light, silence or increased intensity in sounds; neutralization or superposition of waves generally.

n. The act or state of interfering, or of claiming a right to the same invention.

n. The act of interfering; interposition; especially, intermeddling.

n. A clashing or collision; the act of coming into violent contact.

n. In farriery, a striking of one foot against the one next to it, as one hind foot against the other.

n. In Amer. patent law, the conflict between two patents or applications for patent which claim in whole or in part the same invention.

n. In physics, the mutual action of waves of any kind (whether those in water, or sound-, heat-, or light-waves) upon one another, by which, under certain conditions, the vibrations and their effects are increased, diminished, or neutralized.

n. In base-ball and foot-ball, the act of interfering. See interfere, v. i., 5 and 6.

n. (American football) blocking a player's path with your body

n. electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication

n. the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding

n. a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries

n. any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome

"Poirot himself remains unchanged, although his interference is a catalyst for the woman's change."

non-interference   

blocking    block    foreign policy   

interference comparator   

interference filter    interference fit    interference microscope    interference fringes    interference drag   

adherence    appearance    clearance    coherence    disappearance    incoherence    noninterference    perseverance    reappearance   

intervention    intrusion    disturbance    assistance    opposition    restraint    interruption    influence    violence    exertion