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refracting

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1. refracting - Noun

2. refracting - Adjective

3. refracting - Verb

Meaning

of Refract

Serving or tending to refract; as, a refracting medium.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Do not Bodies and Light act mutually upon one another; that is to say, Bodies upon Light in emitting, reflecting, refracting and inflecting it, and Light upon Bodies for heating them, and putting their parts into a vibrating motion wherein heat consists? Isaac Newton

In an effort to create reality on the ground - instead of reporting on it - the American media seem to color events by refracting them through a sickeningly sentimental prism. Ilana Mercer

A drop of water on an Asteraceae Droplets of water refracting a small flower. Source: Internet

“Black Bear” can be a tad self-congratulatory with all the hipster mirroring scenes reflecting and refracting this way and that, and one feels slightly frustrated by certain loose ends that are never tied up. Source: Internet

Dyar and Gunter, pp. 24–26 In contrast, the play of colours in opal is caused by light refracting from ordered microscopic silica spheres within its physical structure. Source: Internet

Chris Schur photographed the comet again on the morning of July 5th with a 6-inch refracting telescope. Source: Internet

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