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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024re•frac•tive (ri frak′tiv),USA pronunciation adj. - of or pertaining to refraction.
- Also, refractile. having power to refract.
- Late Latin refrāctīvus (of pronouns) reflexive. See refract, -ive
- 1665–75
re•frac′tive•ly, adv. re•frac′tive•ness, n. Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: reˈfractive /rɪˈfræktɪv/ adj - of or concerned with refraction
- (of a material or substance) capable of causing refraction
reˈfractively adv reˈfractiveness, refractivity /ˌriːfrækˈtɪvɪtɪ/ n WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024re•frac•tion /rɪˈfrækʃən/USA pronunciation n. [uncountable]- 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 © 2024re•frac•tion (ri frak′shən),USA pronunciation n. - 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.
- 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.
- 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
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