refract

[Re*fract·]

Things that refract light like lenses and prisms bend it. If you've looked through a water droplet on a car windshield, you've seen water refract light.

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To bend sharply and abruptly back; to break off.

Verb
determine the refracting power of (a lens)

Verb
subject to refraction; "refract a light beam"


n.
To bend sharply and abruptly back; to break off.

n.
To break the natural course of, as rays of light orr heat, when passing from one transparent medium to another of different density; to cause to deviate from a direct course by an action distinct from reflection; as, a dense medium refrcts the rays of light as they pass into it from a rare medium.


Refract

Re*fract" (r?*fr$kt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Refracted; p. pr. & vb. n. Refracting.] [L. refractus, p. p. of refringere; pref. re- re- + frangere to break: cf. F. r'82fracter. SEe FRacture, and cf. Refrain, n.] 1. To bend sharply and abruptly back; to break off. 2. To break the natural course of, as rays of light orr heat, when passing from one transparent medium to another of different density; to cause to deviate from a direct course by an action distinct from reflection; as, a dense medium refrcts the rays of light as they pass into it from a rare medium.

To bend sharply and abruptly back; to break off.

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