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  • noun Plural form of refraction.

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Examples

  • It's so exotic to me to read, say, a Douglas Coupland novel and hear this one, mesmeric, first-person voice passing through the whole, but that's the shape of his brain, and third-person refractions of large families with different voices is the shape of mine.

    A Conversation with Zadie Smith about On Beauty 2010

  • Each lens can be adjusted to help focus eye refractions of 0.02 to 0.50, a measure of eyesight, meaning the strength of the lens changes from -6.0 dioptres to +3.0 dioptres, a unit of lens focus, by rotating dials on the side of each frame.

    Adlens Sees Future in Adjustable Lens Technology Anna Novick 2011

  • He looks through networks of refractions on the window toward the canyons of light.

    Somewhere stephen hastings-king 2012

  • Strung by a child in a country I cannot find on a map, the tiger-eyes match each other unevenly: similar shapes with different refractions of yellow and black.

    Tiger-eyed Halsted M. Bernard 2011

  • Here are the multiple refractions and prismatic transformations that he would bring to ballet.

    Ballet in London: New Lights From Russia - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • Visions of the enormous yellow eyes and rainbow tongue flickered behind her eyelids, somehow making the refractions of rainbow light against the ice walls malevolent rather than beautiful.

    Black Magic Cherry Adair 2010

  • Visions of the enormous yellow eyes and rainbow tongue flickered behind her eyelids, somehow making the refractions of rainbow light against the ice walls malevolent rather than beautiful.

    Black Magic Cherry Adair 2010

  • Visions of the enormous yellow eyes and rainbow tongue flickered behind her eyelids, somehow making the refractions of rainbow light against the ice walls malevolent rather than beautiful.

    Black Magic Cherry Adair 2010

  • Here are the multiple refractions and prismatic transformations that he would bring to ballet.

    Ballet in London: New Lights From Russia - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • And technically, Petterson does wonderful things with this novel - POV, structure (note especially the echoes and refractions of past/present), detail grounded in careful observation, and the astonishing way potentially melodramatic events are presented, and sometimes just hinted at.

    One of my tests L. Lee Lowe 2007

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