Interfere vs Impair - What's the difference?
interfere | impair |
To get involved or involve oneself, causing disturbance.
(physics) (of waves) To be correlated with each other when overlapped]] or [[superpose, superposed.
(mostly of horses) To strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
As verbs the difference between interfere and impair
is that interfere is while impair is to weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.As an adjective impair is
(obsolete) not fit or appropriate.interfere
English
Alternative forms
* enterfere (obsolete)Verb
(interfer)- I always try not to interfere with other people’s personal affairs.
- Correlated waves interfere''' to produce interesting patterns, while uncorrelated waves overlap without '''interfering .
- Where the radio-wave signals of the two radio stations interfere the listener hears nothing but noise.