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refrangible, a.|rɪˈfrændʒɪb(ə)l|
[ad. L. type *refrangibilis f. *refrangĕre (for refringĕre): see refract v.]
Capable of being refracted; admitting of, susceptible to, refraction.
1673Newton in Phil. Trans. VIII. 6090, I call that Light homogeneal, similar, or uniform, whose rays are equally refrangible. 1706W. Jones Syn. Palmar. Mathesos 301 The Light of the Sun consists of Rays that are differently..Refrangible. 1770Monthly Rev. XLII. 507 All the different images of the object produced by the differently refrangible rays. 1822J. Imison Sc. & Art II. 33 The invisible rays of heat being more refrangible than those of light. 1851Nichol Archit. Heav. (ed. 9) 218 The red or least refrangible end of the spectrum.
Hence reˈfrangibleness.
1731in Bailey vol. II, and hence in some mod. Dicts. |