Interference
# 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
