Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being refracted: as, the refractive violet rays.
- Of or pertaining to refraction; serving or having power to refract or turn from a direct course.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Serving or having power to refract, or turn from a direct course; pertaining to refraction
- adjective (Opt.) See Index of refraction, under
Index . - adjective (Opt.) the index of refraction of a substances when the ray passes into it from a vacuum.
- adjective (Opt.) the ratio of the sine of the angle of incidence to the sine of the angle of refraction for a ray passing out of one of the media into the other.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Describing that which
refracts .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or capable of refraction
- adjective capable of changing the direction (of a light or sound wave)
Etymologies
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Examples
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A fundamental property called the refractive index governs the amount of light a material reflects, as well as other optical properties such as diffraction, refraction, and the speed of light inside the material.
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At the height of the cold war, a Russian named Victor Veselago took a close look at something called the refractive index.
Ars Technica Chris Lee 2011
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At the height of the cold war, a Russian named Victor Veselago took a close look at something called the refractive index.
Ars Technica Chris Lee 2011
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At the height of the cold war, a Russian named Victor Veselago took a close look at something called the refractive index.
Ars Technica Chris Lee 2011
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The material property which changes the speed of light in a material for a particular frequency is called refractive index.
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The material property which changes the speed of light in a material for a particular frequency is called refractive index.
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The spacing of the rods, each of which measured one thousandth of a millimetre wide, alters a property of the material known as the refractive index, which changes the speed of light inside it.
The Guardian World News Ian Sample 2010
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Younger patients with presbyopia, in which near vision becomes blurry, also may eliminate the need for glasses with a multifocal IOL, a procedure called refractive lens exchange that is typically not covered by insurance.
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2009
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For all the fun that's been had online in the past few days, recasting all the players in the media row, it doesn't actually need refractive tinkering; it was dramatic enough, as is all the best history.
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Examples include cosmetic surgery, refractive eye surgery, and like it or not, abortion.
Brian T. Schwartz: Colorado Amendment 63: Freedom Is Too "Haphazard" for Bell Policy Center Brian T. Schwartz 2010
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