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/ˌɪntərfˈɪrəns/ /ˌɪnərfˈɪrəns/ Listen

Interference

noun

A policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries. Synonym: intervention. Antonyms: nonintervention, noninterference.

The act of hindering or obstructing or impeding. Synonyms: hinderance, hindrance.

Electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication. Synonyms: disturbance, noise.

(American football) blocking a player's path with your body.

Any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome. Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hindrance, hitch, incumbrance, preventative, preventive.

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... striking illustration of similar interference may be shown in carbonic oxide; especially if contrasted with carbonic acid. A mixture of one volume oxygen and hydrogen (638.) with four volumes of carbonic acid was affected at once by a platina ...

— Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 • Michael Faraday

... Ireland, before the peasantry had begun to question the reality of the existence of the fairy folk and their beneficent interference in the affairs of life, these emerald-hued rings were firmly believed to be due to the fairy footsteps which nightly pressed their chosen haunts, and to mark the "little people's" favorite dancing ground. "They had always fine music among themselves, and danced ...

— The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise - Its Habitat and its Time of Growth • M. E. Hard

... planets, and all the stuffed shirts in creation are going to leap madly to get honorary posts on it. And it will be practically beyond criticism, and it will have the public interest passionately at its heart, and it will be practically beyond interference and it will be as inefficient as hell! And the more inefficient it is, the more it will have to take in to allow for its inefficiency—and for your patents it has to give us a flat cut of its gross! And meanwhile we'll get ours from the planets we've landed on and publicized. We've got ...

— Operation: Outer Space • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

... non-interference of Congress with the Territories once secured, there yet stood in the way of its universal application the time-honored agreement called the Missouri Compromise. Down to the year 1820, Congress had legislated to keep Slavery out of the Territories; but ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, February, 1858 • Various

... workmen everywhere with delight; mass meetings and processions proclaimed it as a great victory; and only the conservatives prophesied the worthlessness of such legislation. Horace Greeley sympathetically dissected the bill. He had little faith, it is true, in legislative interference with private contracts. "But," he asks, "who can seriously doubt that it is the duty of the Commonwealth to see that the tender frames of its youth are not shattered by excessively protracted toil?.... Will any one pretend that ten hours per day, especially at confining ...

— The Armies of Labor - Volume 40 in The Chronicles Of America Series • Samuel P. Orth

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