Refraction is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for REFRACTION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the bending of waves or rays of energy
• the fact or phenomenon of light, radio waves, etc. being deflected in passing obliquely through the interface between one medium and another or through a medium of varying density.
• change in direction of propagation of any wave as a result of its travelling at different speeds at different points along the wave front.
• measurement of the focusing characteristics of an eye or eyes.
• the bending of waves or rays of energy, eg seismic waves as the enter or leave a denser medium
• The act of refracting, or the state of being refracted.
• The change in the direction of ray of light, heat, or the like, when it enters obliquely a medium of a different density from that through which it has previously moved.
• The change in the direction of a ray of light, and, consequently, in the apparent position of a heavenly body from which it emanates, arising from its passage through the earth\'s atmosphere; -- hence distinguished as atmospheric refraction, or astronomical refraction.
• The correction which is to be deducted from the apparent altitude of a heavenly body on account of atmospheric refraction, in order to obtain the true altitude.
• the change in direction of a propagating wave (light or sound) when passing from one medium to another
• the amount by which a propagating wave is bent
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (as air) into another (as glass) in which its velocity is different

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Words that contain REFRACTION

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How to use REFRACTION in a sentence

• Among them could be seen the poet Isagani, explaining to a companion the theory of the refraction of light.
• A gleam of their divine refraction swam before her.
• A hundred feet lower and the refraction of the light would present it in different coloring and perspective.
• The same phenomena of rapidly varying refraction may often be witnessed at sunset, when the sun, sinking into the lake, undergoes a most striking series of changes.
• Refraction is the bending of a ray passing obliquely from a rarer into a denser medium.
• Terrestrial refraction is the same thing, occurring whenever there is a difference of density in the aerial strata.
• The looming up of a vessel on the water is another common instance of the principle of refraction.
• They understood the phenomena of the reflection and refraction of light.
• The discovery of Neptune is an instance of the kind furnished by astronomy, and that of conical refraction by the optical theory of undulations.
• The correction for the velocity of light in vacuo is found by multiplying the speed in air by the index of refraction of air, at the temperature of the experiments.
• It was thus when tables of atmospheric refraction enabled observers to write down the real places of the heavenly bodies instead of their apparent places.
• By refraction the magnifying glass reveals objects hidden because of their minuteness, and enlarges for our careful contemplation objects otherwise barely visible.
• The deception is due to refraction, and the material and shape of the bottle furnish a sufficient explanation.
• It is these tiny drops which by their refraction and their scattering of light produce the rainbow in the heavens.
• It reveals the defects in the accommodation, and serves for the quick determination of refraction.
• We had also measured the refraction of different gases, which, up to that time, had not been attempted.
• Theory on 14 Motion of 16 Reflection of 17 Refraction of 20 on bodies.
• The beautiful luminous ring was simply an optical illusion, produced by the refraction of the terrestrial atmosphere.
• It is easy to show that this refraction prevents the Sun from ever being totally invisible.
• They are both made upon the same principles, both being adjusted to the laws by which the transmission and refraction of rays of light are regulated.
• The Herschels knew enough of the laws of heat and refraction to realize they must have an even temperature, but they forgot that pasteboard was porous.
• The combination of these three lenses, of different powers of refraction, secures the correction of their separate errors.
• He afterwards traced it to the warm air collecting in the upper part of the tube and producing an irregular refraction of the light.
• The discrepancy may perhaps be ascribed to the effect of refraction, as we were prevented by the land from observing on both horizons.
• The day before he had noted exactly the hour when the sun disappeared beneath the horizon, making allowance for the refraction.
• The rays from the luminous object traverse the first glass, and by refraction form an image upside down at its focus.
• The later nineteenth century was thus the age of refraction of the classic tradition among the various racial groups that sprang up with the rise of the national idea.
• These were followed by another set, involving either a constant amount of refraction or one becoming infinite.
• Nor will she like less the splendor of sunset tints on water to know the secrets of the pleasant tricks of refraction and reflection.
• REFRACTION, a bending of light by passing through any medium, as air, water, prism.

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