Diffusion (disambiguation)
Diffusion (from Latin diffundere, "pour out, spread") stands for:
- Diffusion , physical process that leads to a mixture of substances
- Diffusion (image processing) , smoothing an image, and simulating scattered light
- Diffusion (cryptology) , Claude Shannon's principle for operating secure encryption systems
- Diffusion (political science) , dissemination of political phenomena through contact between societies
- Heat flow in a solid or a liquid at rest as a result of a temperature difference, see heat diffusion
- diffuse light , in visual optics an impression of light in which the source of the light radiation cannot be identified
- diffuse reflection , in wave theory a dispersion on surfaces according to the law of reflection
- Adoption of foreign cultural elements as a form of cultural change
- Introduction and dissemination of innovations in a social system, see diffusion theory
- Dissemination of cultural phenomena within the framework of a theory of cultural propagation, see diffusionism
Diffusivity stands for:
- Diffusivity , material property that enables dissolved substances to spread
Diffusion stands for:
- Diffusivity (acoustics) , the non-localizability of a sound source
Diffuser stands for:
- Diffuser , component in fluid mechanics, reversal of a nozzle
- Diffuser (acoustics) , an element for dispersing sound
- Diffuser (photography) , an attachment for a flash unit to diffuse the flash light
- Diffuser (motorsport) , tail unit raised to the rear of the underbody at the rear of a racing car
- Diffuser (optics) , a filter for the undirected distribution of light
See also:
- List of all Wikipedia articles whose title begins with diffuse
- List of all Wikipedia articles whose title contains diffuse
Wiktionary: Diffusion - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations