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echelon grating
echelon gratingn. A diffraction grating made of parallel glass plates, each of which extends slightly beyond the next, used to examine extremely fine structures through interferometry.echelon grating
echelon grating[′esh·ə‚län ‚grād·iŋ] (spectroscopy) A diffraction grating which consists of about 20 plane-parallel plates about 1 centimeter thick, cut from one sheet, each plate extending beyond the next by about 1 millimeter, and which has a resolving power on the order of 106. |