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

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