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Optical device that distributes the light of a lamp evenly
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diffuser
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. baffle that distributes sound waves evenly [syn: diffusor ] optical device that distributes the light of a lamp evenly [syn: diffusor ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Diffuser \Dif*fus"er\, n. One who, or that which, diffuses.
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
In optics, a diffuser is any device that diffuses or spreads out or scatters light in some manner, to give soft light . Diffuse light can be easily obtained by making light to reflect diffusely from a white surface, while more compact optical diffusers ...
Usage examples of diffuser.
But there's not enough solvents in that diffuser, I think, to melt the suit.
We smoked and drank beer and traded environmental stories for a bit, then I showed him the pictures of the theta-holes, sketched the diffuser, laid out the whole gig.
Once I found the diffuser, I slapped the magnet on and tied myself to that with some rock-climbing webbing.
I have to get the toxics off the bottom of the sea and onto the cathode-ray tubes of the public in order for this kind of gig to work and, because the diffuser was completely hidden, this wouldn't be easy.
Tom swam down to the diffuser and put the pump's intake hose into a diffuser hole, and I hauled the Zode up onto the beach and dragged the pump's output hose into the wading pool.
So, uh, we're shutting the diffuser off now, and I'd recommend that you stop putting wastes into it, for obvious reasons.
Smugglers regularly used them to prevent cursory searches from uncovering contraband, but a little time and a little effort made finding the diffusers easy, and finding one of them meant finding whatever they covered.
With a reflector, some backfill, a diffuser, she could have made this shot sing.
All of the bulkhead-mounted fittings-- electrical junction boxes, hose reels, hatches and doors, ventilation diffusers, and fluorescent light fixtures-- were in shadow, and his eyesight was further restricted by the limited peripheral vision caused by the mask.
Also there were diffusers constructed of sheets of white cloth stretched taut on frames.
They are the material of great orators, great preachers, impressive diffusers of moral influences.
How does one come up with the design of new nanobots or spaciotemporal diffusers by looking at walls!
Most Wizard-powered starships, like our Starfuries, are equipped with diffusers to prevent this very phenomenon.
The four dustpan-shaped dredge heads beneath its undercarriage scooped up nodules and fed them through semicircular tubes into its diffusers, which sifted out the silt and spat it out through vents behind the machine, leaving behind a small bin of nodules.