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What is the principle of diffraction?

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The principle of diffraction:
The bending of a wave around the edges of a barrier is known as diffraction. Huygens' Principle is used to illustrate this notion.
"Every point on a given wavefront is by itself a source of a number of spherical wavelets," according to Huygens' principle.

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