refraction
noun
the change of direction of a ray of light, sound, heat, or the like, in passing obliquely from one medium into another in which its wave velocity is different.
refractional
-
a word derived from
refraction.
Example Sentences
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The sun, though not especially hot, was nonetheless so brilliant that it made any fairly distant image—a boy, a boat—seem almost as wavering and refractional as a stick in water.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
