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. Refracting angle of a prism See Telescope. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Refracting

refossion
refought
refound
refoundation
refoundations
refounded
refounder
refounders
refounding
refounds
refract
refractable
refracted
refracted light
refractile
refracting (current term)
refracting angle of a prism
refracting telescope
refracting telescopes
refraction
refractionist
refractionometer
refractions
refractive
refractive accommodative esotropia
refractive amblyopia
refractive errors
refractive index
refractive keratoplasty
refractive keratotomy

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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