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单词 refractional
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
re•frac•tion /rɪˈfrækʃən/USA pronunciation   n. [uncountable]
  1. Optics, Physicsthe change of direction of a ray of light in passing through different substances, as glass or water, at an angle.
re•frac•tive, adj. See -frac-.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
re•frac•tion  (ri frakshən),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Optics, Physics[Physics.]the change of direction of a ray of light, sound, heat, or the like, in passing obliquely from one medium into another in which its wave velocity is different.
  2. Ophthalmology
    • the ability of the eye to refract light that enters it so as to form an image on the retina.
    • the determining of the refractive condition of the eye.
  3. Astronomy
    • AstronomyAlso called astronomical refraction. the amount, in angular measure, by which the altitude of a celestial body is increased by the refraction of its light in the earth's atmosphere, being zero at the zenith and a maximum at the horizon.
    • Astronomythe observed altered location, as seen from the earth, of another planet or the like due to diffraction by the atmosphere.
  • Late Latin refrāctiōn- (stem of refrāctiō). See refract, -ion
  • 1570–80
re•fraction•al, adj. 

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