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grate on (one)

To irritate or annoy one. Her snarky comments are really starting to grate on me. Would you kids pipe down? You're grating on me with all these questions. Hey, your loud music is really grating on me.

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grate on (something)

To scrape or scratch against something. When you move the table, please make sure that the legs don't grate on the floor. A: "Ah! What was that horrific sound?" B: "Sorry, the chalk grated on the chalkboard a bit there." The bottom right corner of that trunk has a sharp edge that will grate on the floor if you're not careful.

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grate on someone

to annoy someone; to rub someone the wrong way. Your negative attitude really grates on me. Everything you say grates on me.

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grate on someone('s nerves)

Fig. to annoy someone; to bother someone. My obnoxious brother is grating on my nerves. Your whining really grates on me.

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grate on something

to rub, scrape, or abrade something. The tree branch is grating on the side of the house. The bottom of the door is grating on the threshold. Please fix it. gratify someone's desires Euph. to have sex with someone. The prostitute promised to gratify her customer's desires. That night, he gratified her desires.

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grate on

1. To scrape against something and roughen or remove pieces of a surface: The fender was grating on the tire of the car.

2. To irritate someone or something as if by scraping or grating: These loud noises are starting to grate on me.

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Both lenses and diffraction gratings bend light at different wavelengths to different extents, what scientists call "chromatic aberration," that can be overcome in conventional optics through use of a series of lenses that correct for that.

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A near-eye display device, comprising: an image source: a waveguide configured to propagate light from the image source to a field of view of a user of the near-eye display device, the waveguide comprising a holographic grating comprising a plurality of angularly multiplexed holograms; and a controller configured to control display of an image via the image source.

The microsoft patents

The high mismatch causes a large reflection at both the entrance and exit of the grating forming an etalon; therefore, the only frequencies that are transmitted at the output interface correspond to the etalon's resonance frequencies.

Tunable Amplitude and Phase Modulation in Terahertz Regime Using Transverse Stratified Configuration

Using both qualitative and quantitative approach, this study sought to randomly assess cassava grating surfaces for analysis and standardisation.

FIELD MEASUREMENTS AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF PERFORATED GRATING SURFACES FOR GRATING FRESH CASSAVA INTO MASH IN GHANA

As shown in Figure 1, one CW probe beam ([lambda] = 532 nm or 633 nm) with right-handed or left-handed circular polarization was aligned to normally probe the refilling CLC template grating sample.

Circular Polarization and Wavelength Selective Gratings Based on Holographic Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Templates

The sensitivity of LPFGs to torsion arises from the connection between changes in the grating's birefringent structure due to axial twists (caused by the photoelastic effect) and the state of polarization (SOP) of the guided light [10, 16, 17], producing a shift of the resonance wavelength and/or an increment or reduction of the intensity of the transmitted light.

Ultrashort Long-Period Fiber Gratings Inscribed on a Single-Mode Fiber for Torsion Sensing Applications

The company's grating products are used as flooring for stairs, mezzanines and walkways by a wide variety of industrial and commercial customers.

Fisher and Ludlow to Acquire Alabama Metal Industries' Bar Grating Assets

Our new grating rig allows manufacturers to test many types of cheese, for example, the results of which can help guide research and development plans, optimise processing parameters and inform and facilitate quality control."

Testing the grateness of ingredients

In addition, the digital micro/nanomoire method using a digital grating as the reference grating has also been applied to measure micro/nanodeformation [15, 16].

Formation of three-way scanning electron microscope moire on micro/nanostructures

Scalar diffraction theory is one of the widely used methods for the design and analysis of grating structures [7-10].

Total internal reflection-based high efficiency grating design for a metal-free polarizing filter applications using hybrid optimization procedure

Scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a compact snapshot polarisation camera based on diffraction gratings containing nanoscale structures.