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Definition of Refract
1. Verb. Subject to refraction. "Refract a light beam"
Generic synonyms: Subject
Derivative terms: Refraction, Refractive, Refractive
2. Verb. Determine the refracting power of (a lens).
Definition of Refract
1. v. t. To bend sharply and abruptly back; to break off.
Definition of Refract
1. Verb. (intransitive of light) To change direction as a result of entering a different medium ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) (''Optics'') To cause (light) to change direction as a result of entering a different medium. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Refract
1. to deflect in a particular manner, as a ray of light [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Medical Definition of Refract
1. 1. To change the direction of a ray of light. 2. To detect an error of refraction and to correct it by means of lenses. Origin: L. Refringo, pp. -fractus, to break up (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Refract
Literary usage of Refract
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Refugium Botanicum: Or Figures and Descriptions from Living Specimens, of ...by William Wilson Saunders, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, John Gilbert Baker by William Wilson Saunders, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, John Gilbert Baker (1882)
"Lip with a linear equal claw, and a refract trifid hastate lamina. Lateral lacinia
of the lamina nearly quadrate or ..."
2. The British and Foreign Medical Review: Or Quarterly Journal of Practical (1844)
"These globules are speckled with nuclei or granules, refract the light strongly,
and when rolled on by the current, some of them become pear-shaped from ..."
3. Organon of Science: Three Books in One Volume by John Harrison Stinson (1879)
"... which refract light in this manner; but it is either an' a cause at all, or
at best it is not of itself THE cause, since all crystaline substances do ..."
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