backscatter
verbEtymology Back-formation from backscattering.
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Ambitransitive To scatter particles or radiation back to the direction from which they originate.
backscatter
nounEtymology Back-formation from backscattering.
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Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics The deflection of particles or radiation through angles greater than 90 degrees to the original direction of travel.
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The particles or radiation deflected in this manner.
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Government, Military, Politics, War A portion of the energy of electromagnetic radiation such as a laser or radio waves that is scattered back in the direction of the source of radiation by an obscurant.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences The sending of IP packets to essentially random addresses in response to incoming packets that have a spoofed origin.
- Derived terms
- backscatterer