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A device which makes use of or produces refraction of light; (in early use) †a refracting telescope (= refractor, n. 2b) (obsolete).
Chiefly Astronomy. A telescope which uses a converging lens (the objective lens) to collect and focus the light; a refracting telescope. Contrasted…