destructive interference
nounDefinitions
When two waves meet and their crests and troughs cancel each other out, resulting in a…
When two waves meet and their crests and troughs cancel each other out, resulting in a smaller wave or no wave at all, occurring when they are out of phase (180 degrees apart), like noise-canceling headphones using opposite sound waves to create silence; the opposite of constructive interference, where waves add up to become bigger.
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Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for destructive interference. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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