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, distortion caused by successive symbols

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
  • Interference (clinical chemistry), defined as a cause of medically significant difference in the measurand test result due to another component or property of the sample

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
  • Interference: How Organized Crime Influences Professional Football, a 1989 non-fiction book by journalist Dan Moldea

See also

  • Intervention (disambiguation)