interferometer

IPA: ɪntɝfɝˈɑmʌtɝ

(physics) any of several instruments that use the interference of waves to determine wavelengths and wave velocities, determine refractive indices, measure small distances, temperature changes, stresses, and many other useful measurements.

Examples of "interferometer" in Sentences

Michelson's interferometer is capable of an application no less significant than those which we have already considered.
In principle we could have a radio interferometer which is on the scale of the cis-lunar or even the inner solar system.
Chu was one of the originators of the atom interferometer, which is based on his Nobel Prize-winning development of cold laser traps.
We have built an interferometer, which is a series of telescopes which are coordinated to operate as a single instrument on top of Mauna Kea.
The instrument in question, known as the interferometer, had previously yielded a remarkable series of results when applied in its various forms to the solution of fundamental problems.
When complete, ALMA will have at least 66 high-tech antennas operating together as an "interferometer", working as a single, huge telescope probing the sky in the millimetre and submillimetre wavelengths of light.