Refract

[rɪ'frækt]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) determine the refracting power of (a lens).

(verb.) subject to refraction; 'refract a light beam'.

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解釋/意思:

(n.) To bend sharply and abruptly back; to break off.

(n.) To break the natural course of, as rays of light orr heat, when passing from one transparent medium to another of different density; to cause to deviate from a direct course by an action distinct from reflection; as, a dense medium refrcts the rays of light as they pass into it from a rare medium.

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同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. Deflect (rays), deviate, turn from a straight course.

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解釋/意思:

v.t. to break back or open: to break the natural course or bend from a direct line as rays of light &c.—adj. Rēfrac′table.—p.adjs. Rēfrac′ted turned out of its straight course as a ray of light: (bot. &c.) bent back at an acute angle; Rēfrac′ting serving or tending to refract: refractive.—n. Rēfrac′tion the act of refracting: the change in the direction of a ray of light heat &c. when it enters a different medium.—adj. Rēfrac′tive refracting: pertaining to refraction.—ns. Rēfrac′tiveness; Rēfractiv′ity; Rēfractom′eter an instrument for measuring the refractive power of different substances; Rēfrac′tor a refracting telescope.—Angle of refraction the angle between a perpendicular and a ray of light after its change of direction bearing a constant ratio to the sine of the angle of incidence—the index of refraction; Astronomical or Atmospheric refraction the apparent angular elevation of the heavenly bodies above their true places caused by the refraction of the rays of light in their passage through the earth's atmosphere; Double refraction the separation of an incident ray of light into two refracted rays polarised in perpendicular planes.

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