| 单词 | refract |
| 释义 | refract (once / 2254 pages) v Things that refract light — like lenses and prisms — bend it. If you've looked through a water droplet on a car windshield, you've seen water refract light. You're most likely to come across the verb refract when you're studying physics and the properties of light waves. We come across example of this everyday, though — when you study a straw in a glass of water, you see the water refract light in a way that makes the straw look bent or jagged. A rainbow also happens when raindrops refract light, breaking it into its component colors. In Latin, refract means "broken up." WORD FAMILYrefract: refracted, refracting, refraction, refractive, refracts+/refraction: refractions/refractive: refractiveness, refractivity USAGE EXAMPLESYellow flecks ran through a plane at its centre, one of which was large and marred its ability to refract light. BBC(Dec 08, 2016) Some of that slimming is a result of new lightweight acoustical materials that refract rather than absorb road noise. New York Times(Dec 08, 2016) And then this is refracted through racist assumptions about black people and black men specifically. Slate(Dec 06, 2016) 1v subject to refraction refract a light beam Hyper subject cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to 2v determine the refracting power of (a lens) Hyper ascertain, determine, find, find out establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study |
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