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obstacle
English
Etymology
From Middle English obstacle, from Old French obstacle, from Latin obst?culum.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??bst?kl?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??bst?kl?/
- Hyphenation: ob?sta?cle
Noun
obstacle (plural obstacles)
- Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
- A big obstacle to understanding the manual was that it had been poorly translated from the Japanese.
Synonyms
- impediment
- hindrance
- hurdle
- barrier
- complication
- snag
- See also Thesaurus:hindrance
Translations
Anagrams
- Casebolt, costable
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin obst?culum.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /ops?ta.kl?/
- (Central) IPA(key): /ups?ta.kl?/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /ops?ta.kle/
Noun
obstacle m (plural obstacles)
- obstacle
Derived terms
- obstaculitzar
Further reading
- “obstacle” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin obstaculum, from obst?
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p.stakl/
Noun
obstacle m (plural obstacles)
- obstacle
Derived terms
- course d'obstacles
- faire obstacle
- saut d'obstacles
Further reading
- “obstacle” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
obstacle From the web:
- what obstacles have you overcome
- what obstacles did odysseus face
- what obstacles to self-determination still exist
- what obstacles are in a spartan race
- what obstacles has odysseus faced
- what obstacle does montresor face
- what obstacles have you overcome in life
interference
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)
- The act of interfering with something, or something that interferes.
- (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.
- (physics) An effect caused by the superposition of two systems of waves.
- 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.
- (US, law) In United States patent law, an inter partes proceeding to determine the priority issues of multiple patent applications; a priority contest.
- (chess) The interruption of the line between an attacked piece and its defender by sacrificially interposing a piece.
- (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
interference From the web:
- what interference means
- what inference can be made about the cyclops
- what inference can be drawn from the graph
- what inference can be made about romeo from this dialogue
- what interference of light
- what interference of light takes place
- what inference you get when qc=kc
- what is an example of interference
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