refractingadj.

Brit.

/rᵻˈfraktɪŋ/, U.S.

/rəˈfræktɪŋ/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: refract v., -ing suffix².

Etymology: < refract v. + -ing suffix². Compare earlier refractive adj.

a. Physics. Causing refraction; refractive.

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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > refraction > [adjective]

refractious1633

refractive1642

refracting1644

refringent1654

dioptric1672

refractory1788

anaclastic1796

refractile1797

prismy1799

diaclastic1883

Brewsterian1942

1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. viii. 58 No slownesse that light can acquire by the resistance of the refracting body.

1668 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 3 743 These Objects, Reflecting and Refracting Glasses, and the whole Apparatus;..must be placed..so that they may not be perceived by the Spectators in the room.

1704 I. Newton Opticks i. i. 3 The Perpendicular to the reflecting or refracting Surface at the Point of Incidence.

1743 W. Emerson Doctr. Fluxions 282 To find the Motion of a Ray of Light passing into a refracting Medium.

1837 C. R. Goring & A. Pritchard Micrographia 182 The rays..should traverse both the refracting surfaces without any obliquity.

1863 E. Atkinson tr. A. Ganot Elem. Treat. Physics vii. iii. §432 According as the refracted ray approaches, or deviates from the normal, the second medium is said to be more or less refringent or refracting than the first.

1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 886 The fibres..present a few refracting granules.

1940 G. H. J. Adlam & L. S. Price Higher School Certificate Inorg. Chem. (ed. 2) xlii. 415 The common form [of arsenious oxide] is composed of highly refracting octahedral crystals.

1994 Ophthalmol. & Visual Sci. 71 282 Tracing a paraxial ray through a coaxial optical system that contains spherical refracting elements requires a 2×2 system matrix.

2002 R. J. Richards Romantic Conception Life ii. 67 How the various refracting media of the mammalian eye must be arranged for the purpose of focusing an image on the retina.

b. Functioning by making use of the refraction of light; provided with a device or system for refracting light.

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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instruments to refract, etc., light > [adjective] > refractor

dioptral1610

dioptric1653

dioptic1656

dioptrical1664

refracting1747

dioptical1818

1665 Minute 31 May in T. Birch Hist. Royal Soc. (1756) II. 53 Mr. Hooke was ordered to have the vessel of the refracting engine made larger.

1672 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 7 4004 This Excellent Mathematician having given us..an account of the cause, which induced him to think upon Reflecting Telescopes, instead of Refracting ones.

1677 R. Hooke Diary 12 June (1935) 295 Sent Refracting Engine to Mr. Boyle.

1747 B. Martin Philosophia Britannica I. 290 This alone is the invincible Obstacle to perfect Vision by any refracting Instruments.

1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 119 Expose it..to the light of a refracting lamp.

1896 Orford Mod. Optical Instr. 95 In the refracting stereoscope the rays of light..are always bent towards the thicker part of the lens.

1939 H. T. Stetson in K. Henney & B. Dudley Handbk. Photogr. xxv. 746 This..cannot be so effectively done with the refracting type of instrument on account of the strong color characteristics of the lens.

1978 Sci. Amer. Dec. 98/1 (caption) Hexagonal array of lenslets in the refracting compound eye of the diamondback moth.

2. Undergoing refraction. rare.

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1718 N. Rowe tr. Lucan Pharsalia iv. 119 Unvary'd by the Light's refracting Beam She stoop'd to drink from Ocean's briny Stream.

1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. II. xv. 162 The refraction in all cases of incidence on the same refracting ray may be determined.

1852 H. Melville Pierre ix. i. 224 In those Hyperborean regions,..all objects are seen in a dubious, uncertain, and refracting light.

2001 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 34 412 The law of refraction stated that the ratio between the sine of the angle of incident rays and the sine of the angle of refracting rays was constant.

3. That resists fire or strong heat; = refractory adj. 5. rare.

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society > occupation and work > materials > types of material generally > [adjective] > mouldable or workable > not

refractory1741

unworkable1854

refracting1894

1894 R. S. Burn's Steam Engine User 145 The interior, especially of the furnace proper,..and the combustion chamber being lined with ‘refracting’ bricks, generally termed fire-bricks.

1994 Materials Sci. & Engin. A 179–80 159/1 The extracting wheel should be made of a refracting material of good thermal conductivity able to take a good edge and to withstand rapid wide fluctuations in temperature.

Compounds

refracting angle n. the angle between two faces of a prism or lens.

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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > lens > [noun] > qualities of lenses

power1673

refracting angle1676

resolution1831

depth of focus1852

astigmatism1859

aplanatism1869

apochromatism1887

covering power1895

coverage1936

asphericity1944

parfocality1955

1676 I. Newton in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 698 In my answer I did not prescribe the just quantity of the refracting Angle with which I would have the Experiment repeated.

1796 H. Brougham in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 86 262 An hollow prism made of fine plate-glass,..its refracting angle being 55°.

1890 W. E. Woodbury Encycl. Photogr. 394 A divergence from the axis will take place, becoming more and more marked as the refracting angles become greater towards the edge of the lens.

2003 B. Husch et al. Forest Mensuration (ed. 4) xiv. 340 The cruising prisms that foresters have used in horizontal point sampling generally have a refracting angle of less than 6°.

refracting telescope n. = refractor n. 2b.

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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instrument for distant vision > [noun] > telescope > refracting telescopes

refracting telescope1728

refracter1738

refractor1747

1672 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 7 4004 This Excellent Mathematician having given us..an account of the cause, which induced him to think upon Reflecting Telescopes, instead of Refracting ones.]

1728 Philos. Trans. 1726–7 (Royal Soc.) 34 87 A Refracting Telescope of 15 Feet.

1870 Daily News 8 Oct. 2/1 A magnificent refracting telescope, with an object-glass of 25 inches diameter.

1999 L. Kennedy All in Mind vii. 154 Galileo..perfected a refracting telescope through which he became the first to observe that the moon supported mountains and valleys.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	refracting
释义	refractingadj. Brit. /rᵻˈfraktɪŋ/, U.S. /rəˈfræktɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: refract v., -ing suffix². Etymology: < refract v. + -ing suffix². Compare earlier refractive adj. 1. a. Physics. Causing refraction; refractive. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > refraction > [adjective] refractious1633 refractive1642 refracting1644 refringent1654 dioptric1672 refractory1788 anaclastic1796 refractile1797 prismy1799 diaclastic1883 Brewsterian1942 1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. viii. 58 No slownesse that light can acquire by the resistance of the refracting body. 1668 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 3 743 These Objects, Reflecting and Refracting Glasses, and the whole Apparatus;..must be placed..so that they may not be perceived by the Spectators in the room. 1704 I. Newton Opticks i. i. 3 The Perpendicular to the reflecting or refracting Surface at the Point of Incidence. 1743 W. Emerson Doctr. Fluxions 282 To find the Motion of a Ray of Light passing into a refracting Medium. 1837 C. R. Goring & A. Pritchard Micrographia 182 The rays..should traverse both the refracting surfaces without any obliquity. 1863 E. Atkinson tr. A. Ganot Elem. Treat. Physics vii. iii. §432 According as the refracted ray approaches, or deviates from the normal, the second medium is said to be more or less refringent or refracting than the first. 1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 886 The fibres..present a few refracting granules. 1940 G. H. J. Adlam & L. S. Price Higher School Certificate Inorg. Chem. (ed. 2) xlii. 415 The common form [of arsenious oxide] is composed of highly refracting octahedral crystals. 1994 Ophthalmol. & Visual Sci. 71 282 Tracing a paraxial ray through a coaxial optical system that contains spherical refracting elements requires a 2×2 system matrix. 2002 R. J. Richards Romantic Conception Life ii. 67 How the various refracting media of the mammalian eye must be arranged for the purpose of focusing an image on the retina. b. Functioning by making use of the refraction of light; provided with a device or system for refracting light. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instruments to refract, etc., light > [adjective] > refractor dioptral1610 dioptric1653 dioptic1656 dioptrical1664 refracting1747 dioptical1818 1665 Minute 31 May in T. Birch Hist. Royal Soc. (1756) II. 53 Mr. Hooke was ordered to have the vessel of the refracting engine made larger. 1672 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 7 4004 This Excellent Mathematician having given us..an account of the cause, which induced him to think upon Reflecting Telescopes, instead of Refracting ones. 1677 R. Hooke Diary 12 June (1935) 295 Sent Refracting Engine to Mr. Boyle. 1747 B. Martin Philosophia Britannica I. 290 This alone is the invincible Obstacle to perfect Vision by any refracting Instruments. 1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 119 Expose it..to the light of a refracting lamp. 1896 Orford Mod. Optical Instr. 95 In the refracting stereoscope the rays of light..are always bent towards the thicker part of the lens. 1939 H. T. Stetson in K. Henney & B. Dudley Handbk. Photogr. xxv. 746 This..cannot be so effectively done with the refracting type of instrument on account of the strong color characteristics of the lens. 1978 Sci. Amer. Dec. 98/1 (caption) Hexagonal array of lenslets in the refracting compound eye of the diamondback moth. 2. Undergoing refraction. rare. ΚΠ 1718 N. Rowe tr. Lucan Pharsalia iv. 119 Unvary'd by the Light's refracting Beam She stoop'd to drink from Ocean's briny Stream. 1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. II. xv. 162 The refraction in all cases of incidence on the same refracting ray may be determined. 1852 H. Melville Pierre ix. i. 224 In those Hyperborean regions,..all objects are seen in a dubious, uncertain, and refracting light. 2001 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 34 412 The law of refraction stated that the ratio between the sine of the angle of incident rays and the sine of the angle of refracting rays was constant. 3. That resists fire or strong heat; = refractory adj. 5. rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > types of material generally > [adjective] > mouldable or workable > not refractory1741 unworkable1854 refracting1894 1894 R. S. Burn's Steam Engine User 145 The interior, especially of the furnace proper,..and the combustion chamber being lined with ‘refracting’ bricks, generally termed fire-bricks. 1994 Materials Sci. & Engin. A 179–80 159/1 The extracting wheel should be made of a refracting material of good thermal conductivity able to take a good edge and to withstand rapid wide fluctuations in temperature. Compounds refracting angle n. the angle between two faces of a prism or lens. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > lens > [noun] > qualities of lenses power1673 refracting angle1676 resolution1831 depth of focus1852 astigmatism1859 aplanatism1869 apochromatism1887 covering power1895 coverage1936 asphericity1944 parfocality1955 1676 I. Newton in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 698 In my answer I did not prescribe the just quantity of the refracting Angle with which I would have the Experiment repeated. 1796 H. Brougham in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 86 262 An hollow prism made of fine plate-glass,..its refracting angle being 55°. 1890 W. E. Woodbury Encycl. Photogr. 394 A divergence from the axis will take place, becoming more and more marked as the refracting angles become greater towards the edge of the lens. 2003 B. Husch et al. Forest Mensuration (ed. 4) xiv. 340 The cruising prisms that foresters have used in horizontal point sampling generally have a refracting angle of less than 6°. refracting telescope n. = refractor n. 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instrument for distant vision > [noun] > telescope > refracting telescopes refracting telescope1728 refracter1738 refractor1747 1672 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 7 4004 This Excellent Mathematician having given us..an account of the cause, which induced him to think upon Reflecting Telescopes, instead of Refracting ones.] 1728 Philos. Trans. 1726–7 (Royal Soc.) 34 87 A Refracting Telescope of 15 Feet. 1870 Daily News 8 Oct. 2/1 A magnificent refracting telescope, with an object-glass of 25 inches diameter. 1999 L. Kennedy All in Mind vii. 154 Galileo..perfected a refracting telescope through which he became the first to observe that the moon supported mountains and valleys. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1644
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