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Definition of Refracting
1. a. Serving or tending to refract; as, a refracting medium.
Definition of Refracting
1. Verb. (present participle of refract) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Refracting
1. refract [v] - See also: refract
Medical Definition of Refracting
1.
Serving or tending to refract; as, a refracting medium.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Refracting
Literary usage of Refracting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mirrors, Prisms and Lenses: A Text-book of Geometrical Optics by James Powell Cocke Southall (1918)
"Curvature and refracting Power of a Normal Section of a Curved refracting
Surface.—The refracting power (F) of a spherical surface is proportional to the ..."
2. A System of Natural Philosophy: In which the Principles of Mechanics by John Lee Comstock (1813)
"These instruments are of two kinds, namely, refracting and reflecting ...
refracting TELESCOPE.—The most simple refracting telescope consists of a tube, ..."
3. Scientific Dialogues: Intended for the Instruction and Entertainment of by Jeremiah Joyce (1852)
"OF THE refracting TELESCOPE. T. We now propose to describe the structure of
telescopes, of which there are two kinds ; viz. the refracting and the ..."
4. Scientific Dialogues: Intended for the Instruction and Entertainment of by Jeremiah Joyce (1838)
"C. The former or refracting telescope depends, I suppose, upon lenses for the
operation ; and the reflecting telescope acts chiefly hy means of mirrors. ..."
5. Handbook of Natural Philosophy: Optics by Dionysius Lardner (1869)
"The propriety of this test of the refracting power will be easily understood.
... Index of retraction increases with the refracting power. ..."
6. The Principles and Methods of Geometrical Optics: Especially as Applied to by James Powell Cocke Southall (1910)
"A series of transparent optical media separated from each other by plane refracting
surfaces constitutes a system of prisms; the second face of one prism ..."
7. The Principles and Methods of Geometrical Optics: Especially as Applied to by James Powell Cocke Southall (1910)
"A series of transparent optical media separated from each other by plane refracting
surfaces constitutes a system of prisms; the second face of one prism ..."
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