Huygens-Fresnel principle

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Etymology

Named after Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens and French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel.

Proper noun

the Huygens-Fresnel principle

  1. A method of analysis applied to problems of wave propagation, stating that every point on a wavefront is itself the source of spherical wavelets, and the secondary wavelets emanating from different points mutually interfere.
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