Definition of Refractions

1. Noun. (plural of refraction) ¹

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Definition of Refractions

1. refraction [n] - See also: refraction

Lexicographical Neighbors of Refractions

refounders
refounding
refounds
refract
refractable
refracted
refracted light
refractile
refracting
refracting angle of a prism
refracting telescope
refracting telescopes
refraction
refractionist
refractionometer
refractions (current term)
refractive
refractive accommodative esotropia
refractive amblyopia
refractive errors
refractive index
refractive keratoplasty
refractive keratotomy
refractively
refractiveness
refractivities
refractivity
refractometer
refractometers
refractometric

Literary usage of Refractions

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1833)
"On the Astronomical refractions. ... his computations are perhaps the best in existence with respect to the value of the mean refractions. ..."

2. The Observatory by Royal Astronomical Society (Gran Bretaña), Royal Greenwich Observatory, NASA Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service, Royal astronomical society GB (1899)
"... observers rather South arid rather North of Greenwich respectively :— North Near Approaches. South Near Approaches. TABLE OF BESSEL'S MEAN refractions. ..."

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