Word Finder - interferences

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

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The illegal obstruction of an opponent in some ball games.

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They were glued to the TV, as the referee called out a fifteen yard penalty for interference.

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An effect caused by the superposition of two systems of waves.

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A distortion on a broadcast signal due to atmospheric or other effects.

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They wanted to watch the game on TV, but there was too much interference to even make out the score on the tiny screen.

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

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The interruption of the line between an attacked piece and its defender by sacrificially interposing a piece.

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The situation where a person who knows two languages inappropriately transfers lexical items or structures from one to the other.

Here, too, he began that series of interferences on behalf of the oppressed and the ill-treated which, whatever mixture of motives may have prompted it, is an honour to his memory.

Their petty punishments and their minute interferences with private life are only special instances of what was common to all municipal rule in the 16th century."

Here as elsewhere in his dominions his intentions were excellent, but his reforming zeal outran discretion, and his hasty and self-opinionated interferences with treaty rights and traditional privileges ended in provoking opposition and disaster.

The fundamental aim of jurisprudence is to realize external freedom by removing the hindrances imposed on each one's free action through the interferences of other wills.

Thus, on the one hand, the object called the cause is denied to have any efficient power to produce the so-called effect; and, on the other hand, the regularities or laws of nature are explained to be direct interferences by the Deity.

A plasma set is immune to the magnetic interferences that can cause screen distortion.