REFRACTION
\ɹɪfɹˈakʃən], \ɹɪfɹˈakʃən], \ɹ_ɪ_f_ɹ_ˈa_k_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of REFRACTION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The act of refracting, or the state of being refracted.
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The change in the direction of ray of light, heat, or the like, when it enters obliquely a medium of a different density from that through which it has previously moved.
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The change in the direction of a ray of light, and, consequently, in the apparent position of a heavenly body from which it emanates, arising from its passage through the earth's atmosphere; -- hence distinguished as atmospheric refraction, or astronomical refraction.
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The correction which is to be deducted from the apparent altitude of a heavenly body on account of atmospheric refraction, in order to obtain the true altitude.
By Oddity Software
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The act of refracting, or the state of being refracted.
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The change in the direction of ray of light, heat, or the like, when it enters obliquely a medium of a different density from that through which it has previously moved.
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The change in the direction of a ray of light, and, consequently, in the apparent position of a heavenly body from which it emanates, arising from its passage through the earth's atmosphere; -- hence distinguished as atmospheric refraction, or astronomical refraction.
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The correction which is to be deducted from the apparent altitude of a heavenly body on account of atmospheric refraction, in order to obtain the true altitude.
By Noah Webster.
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The change of direction of a ray of light in passing obliquely from one medium to another of different density.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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The act of refracting: the change in the direction of a ray of light, heat, etc., when it enters a different medium.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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The change of direction which rays of light experience when they pass obliquely from one medium into another of different density. If the light passes from a rarer to a denser medium, it approaches the perpendicular raised at the point of immersion. The contrary occurs, when it goes from a denser to a rarer medium. The theory of lenses, telescopes, and of the eye, rests entirely on this property of light.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Deflection from a straight course; especially the change of direction of rays of light, heat, and sound in passing from one medium to another of different density, or through a medium the density of which is not uniform. See angle of r., under angle, and refractive index, under index.
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A number expressing the product of the specific refractive power of a substance by the molecular weight of the latter. This number, when calculated for the different members of an homologous series of organic compounds, is found to vary according to more or less definite rules; and, its value being determined for the elementary bodies, its value for compounds can be deduced, at least in some instances. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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