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refract
[ ri-frakt ]
verb (used with object)
- to subject to refraction.
- to determine the refractive condition of (an eye).
refract
/ rɪˈfrækt /
verb
- to cause to undergo refraction
- to measure the refractive capabilities of (the eye, a lens, etc)
Derived Forms
- reˈfractable, adjective
Other Words From
- re·fracta·ble adjective
- re·fracted·ly adverb
- re·fracted·ness noun
- nonre·fracting adjective
- unre·fracted adjective
- unre·fracting adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of refract1
Example Sentences
Less attention has been paid to how heat interacts with structural color — often vibrant, iridescent hues created by light refracting off of microscopic structures.
This supernatural-looking glass refracted tricky golden beams, absorbing tesseracts of analogue and HD-video projections, dosing the audience with what felt like liquid LSD submerged in a blazing infinity pool.
While Spears was reportedly more in control on that record than any other, Blackout succeeds in part because she’s a mysterious presence at its core, her signature wail refracted by effects and shrouded in synths.
When there’s artificial light to help guide you to an island, you don’t hone your other skills, like understanding birds or seeing the ocean refracting off the islands.
These stories shift and evolve, refracted through the values of the societies that retell them.
Ions in the air act like drops of mist; they refract sunshine and make rainbows after rain.
In the Phædrus, which is the supplement of the Symposion, he made it refract something approaching the splendor of truth revealed.
Because they refract the rays of light in the same manner as the rain drops.
I must get these reds to balance, or the whole thing will never refract properly at all.
Ammoniacal copper sulphate forms with picric acid yellow-green crystals which strongly refract the light.
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