Huygens-Fresnel principle
English
Etymology
Named after Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens and French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel.
Proper noun
the Huygens-Fresnel principle
- A method of analysis applied to problems of wave propagation, stating that every point on a wavefront is itself the source of spherical wavelets, and the secondary wavelets emanating from different points mutually interfere.