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- English Word Refract Definition 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.
- English Word Refractable Definition Capable of being refracted.
- English Word Refracted Definition of Refract
- English Word Refracted Definition Bent backward angularly, as if half-broken; as, a refracted stem or leaf.
- English Word Refracted Definition Turned from a direct course by refraction; as, refracted rays of light.
- English Word Refracting Definition of Refract
- English Word Refracting Definition Serving or tending to refract; as, a refracting medium.
- English Word Refraction Definition The act of refracting, or the state of being refracted.
- English Word Refraction Definition The change in the direction of ray of light, heat, or the like, when it enters obliquely a medium of a different density from that through which it has previously moved.
- English Word Refraction Definition The change in the direction of a ray of light, and, consequently, in the apparent position of a heavenly body from which it emanates, arising from its passage through the earth's atmosphere; -- hence distinguished as atmospheric refraction, or astronomical refraction.
- English Word Refraction Definition The correction which is to be deducted from the apparent altitude of a heavenly body on account of atmospheric refraction, in order to obtain the true altitude.
- English Word Refractive Definition Serving or having power to refract, or turn from a direct course; pertaining to refraction; as, refractive surfaces; refractive powers.
- English Word Refractiveness Definition The quality or condition of being refractive.
- English Word Refractometer Definition A contrivance for exhibiting and measuring the refraction of light.
- English Word Refractor Definition Anything that refracts
- English Word Refractor Definition A refracting telescope, in which the image to be viewed is formed by the refraction of light in passing through a convex lens.
- English Word Refractorily Definition In a refractory manner; perversely; obstinately.
- English Word Refractoriness Definition The quality or condition of being refractory.
- English Word Refractory Definition Obstinate in disobedience; contumacious; stubborn; unmanageable; as, a refractory child; a refractory beast.
- English Word Refractory Definition Resisting ordinary treatment; difficult of fusion, reduction, or the like; -- said especially of metals and the like, which do not readily yield to heat, or to the hammer; as, a refractory ore.
- English Word Refractory Definition A refractory person.
- English Word Refractory Definition Refractoriness.
- English Word Refractory Definition OPottery) A piece of ware covered with a vaporable flux and placed in a kiln, to communicate a glaze to the other articles.
- English Word Refracture Definition A second breaking (as of a badly set bone) by the surgeon.
- English Word Refracture Definition To break again, as a bone.
- English Word Refragable Definition Capable of being refuted; refutable.
- English Word Refragate Definition To oppose.
- English Word Refrain Definition To hold back; to restrain; to keep within prescribed bounds; to curb; to govern.
- English Word Refrain Definition To abstain from
- English Word Refrain Definition To keep one's self from action or interference; to hold aloof; to forbear; to abstain.