Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to or produced by the refraction of light.
- Bending back; refracted.
- In prosody, modified or characterized by anaclasis.
Wiktionary
- adj. Produced by the refraction of light, as seen through water.
- adj. Springing back, as the bottom of an anaclastic glass.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Opt.) Produced by the refraction of light, as seen through water.
- adj. Springing back, as the bottom of an
anaclastic glass.
Etymologies
- Ancient Greek ἀνακλάω (anaklaō, "bend back, reflect"). (Wiktionary)
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