refractive

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  1. Of or pertaining to refraction; serving or having power to refract or turn from a direct course.
  2. Refractive index. Same as index of refraction. See index and refraction.
  3. Refractive power in optics, the degree of influence which a transparent body exercises on the light which passes through it: used also in the same sense as refractive index.
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  • (In technical jargon, an anti-cloak would be anisotropic negative refractive index material that is impedance matched to the positive refractive index of the invisibility cloak). —  Scientific Blogging
  • We have fabricated refractive sapphire microlenses and characterized their properties for what we believe to be the first time. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The theoretical anti-cloak that Chen and his colleagues describe would cancel out the effect of a cloaking device by coming into contact with the inner surface of the cloaking device's refractive material. —  msnbc.com: Community
  • Thierry Hufnagel, M.D., and Benjamin Chang, M.D., are among less than 100 refractive surgeons in the United States certified by the Council for Refractive Surgery Quality Assurance. —  Long Island Press
  • This includes detailed information about our surgeons, our breakthrough procedures in lens implant technology, how we customize surgical plans for patients using advanced diagnostic and imaging, risks and complications regarding refractive surgery, —  Long Island Press
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  1. from French réfractif =Portuguese refractivo; as refract + -ive.
 

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