REFRACT
\ɹɪfɹˈakt], \ɹɪfɹˈakt], \ɹ_ɪ_f_ɹ_ˈa_k_t]\
Definitions of REFRACT
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To bend sharply and abruptly back; to break off.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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To bend sharply and abruptly back; to break off.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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To break the natural course of, or bend from a straight line; as, to refract rays of light.
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Refractive.
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Refractor.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To break back or open: to break the natural course, or bend from a direct line, as rays of light, etc.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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To ascertain errors of ocular refraction.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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