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Definition of Angle of refraction
1. Noun. The angle between a refracted ray and a line perpendicular to the surface between the two media at the point of refraction.
Definition of Angle of refraction
1. Noun. (optics) The angle between the perpendicular and a ray refracted at a surface ¹
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Medical Definition of Angle of refraction
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Literary usage of Angle of refraction
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Descartes's Theory of Light and Refraction: A Discourse on Method by A. Mark Smith (1987)
"If you choose some other ray, such as HE, [which is] incident according to angle
CEH, then you will have its [angle] of refraction in the following way: Let ..."
2. A Manual of Spherical and Practical Astronomy: Embracing the General by William Chauvenet (1874)
"When the ray passes from a rarer to a denser medium, it is in general refracted
toward the normal, so that the angle of refraction is less than the angle of ..."
3. Refraction and how to refract by James Thorington (1900)
"... a ray of light passing from a rare into a dense medium is refracted toward
the perpendicular; in other words, the angle of refraction is smaller, ..."
4. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas Hobbes (1839)
"The angle of refraction is that which the refracted line makes with the line of
incidence produced. vu. The angle of inclination is that which the line of ..."
5. Manual of Petrographic Methods by Albert Johannsen (1914)
"(8) That is, //re ratio of the sine of the angle of incidence to the sine of the
angle of refraction is constant and bears the same ratio as the respective ..."
6. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana (1897)
"In the example given for air and water —— = 1.3"й, The sine of the angle of
incidence bears a constant ratio to the sine of the angle of refraction. and ..."
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