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Interferometer
An instrument used to interfere waves, i.e. to superimpose waves in order to extract information about them. It can be used in the fields of astronomy, fibre optics, engineering metrology, optical metrology, oceanography, seismology, quantum mechanics, nuclear and particle physics, plasma physics, remote sensing and biomolecular interactions.
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