different between interference vs chronoclasm

English

Etymology

From interfere +? -ence. The sense in physics was likely introduced by Thomas Young, which he used as early as 1802 in a paper in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nt???fi??ns/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /??nt??fi??ns/

Noun

interference (countable and uncountable, plural interferences)

1. The act of interfering with something, or something that interferes.
2. (sports) The illegal obstruction of an opponent in some ball games.

   They were glued to the TV, as the referee called out a fifteen yard penalty for interference.

3. (physics) An effect caused by the superposition of two systems of waves.
4. A distortion on a broadcast signal due to atmospheric or other effects.

   They wanted to watch the game on TV, but there was too much interference to even make out the score on the tiny screen.

5. (US, law) In United States patent law, an inter partes proceeding to determine the priority issues of multiple patent applications; a priority contest.
6. (chess) The interruption of the line between an attacked piece and its defender by sacrificially interposing a piece.
7. (linguistics) The situation where a person who knows two languages inappropriately transfers lexical items or structures from one to the other.

Antonyms

• noninterference

Derived terms

Translations

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (khrónos, “time”), and ??????? (klást?s, “a person who breaks something”); from ???? (klá?, “break”)

Noun

chronoclasm (plural chronoclasms)

1. The intentional destruction of clocks and other time artifacts
2. (politics) The desire to crush the prevailing sense of time, due to a conflict regarding the fixation of linear time in a community
3. A temporarily frazzled mental state resulting from confusion over what time it is.
4. (science fiction) An interference with the course of history caused by time travel.

References

• Time, Work-Discipline and Industrial Capitalism - E P Thompson - PDF-version
• Mastered By The Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South
• "Chronoclasm" John Wyndham, 1953