refract - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'refract' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Refract

[ n.]

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

Meaning of 'refract' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . refract

[ v]

Meaning (1):
- subject to refraction

Example in sentence:

refract a light beam

Nearby Words:

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Refraction
Refraction refers to the process by which the direction of a wave is changed when moving into shallow water at an angle to the bathymetric contours.

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