Interference

Interference is the act of interfering, invading, or poaching. Interference may also refer to:

Communications

• Interference (communication), anything which alters, modifies, or disrupts a message
• Adjacent-channel interference, caused by extraneous power from a signal in an adjacent channel
• Co-channel interference, also known as crosstalk
• Electromagnetic interference, disturbance that affects an electrical circuit
• Inter-carrier interference, caused by Doppler shift in OFDM modulation
• Intersymbol interference

Entertainment

• Interference (band), an Irish band which formed in 1984
• Interference (Crease album), 1995
• Interference (Cubanate album), 1998
• Interference (film), Paramount's first all-talking film
• "Interference" (Prison Break episode), a 2007 episode
• Interference – Book One, a 1999 Doctor Who novel by Lawrence Miles
• Interference – Book Two, a 1999 Doctor Who novel by Lawrence Miles
• Interference (novel), a 2019 novel by Sue Burke

Science

Biology

• Crossover interference, non-random placement of crossovers with respect to each other during meiosis
• RNA interference, a process within living cells that moderates the activity of their genes
• Vaccine interference, interaction between two or more vaccines mixed in the same formulation
• Viral interference, one viral infection inhibiting another

Physics

• Interference engine
• Interference fit, in engineering
• Interference lithography, in optics
• Thin-film interference, in optics
• Wave interference, in physics

Other

• Interference ripples, in geology
• Interference theory, in psychology

Sports

• Pass interference, a penalty in American football and Canadian Football
• Interference (baseball), changing the course of play from what is expected
• Interference (ice hockey)

Other uses

• Interference (chess)
• Interference proceeding, in U.S. patent law
• Interfering thread nut, a type of locknut
• Statistical interference, in statistics

See also

• Intervention (disambiguation)