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Definition of Refrangible
1. a. Capable of being refracted, or turned out of a direct course, in passing from one medium to another, as rays of light.
Definition of Refrangible
1. Adjective. (dated) That may be refracted ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Refrangible
1. frangible [adj] - See also: frangible
Medical Definition of Refrangible
1. Synonym: refractable. Origin: L. Refringo, to break in pieces (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Refrangible
Literary usage of Refrangible
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"... whose rays are all alike refrangible, 1 call simple, ... rays are some more
refrangible than others, Poll compound, ..."
2. Scientific Memoirs, Being Experimental Contributions to a Knowledge of by John William Draper (1878)
"Comparison of the dix/iers!un and diffraction spectra.—Effect of compression in
the lest refrangible regions and of dilatation in the more ..."
3. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1841)
"... Experiments upon the magnetizing Power of the more refrangible solar Rays."* By
George James Knox, Esq. and the Rev. Thomas Knox. ..."
4. An Experimental Treatise on Optics: Comprehending the Leading Principles of by Jean-Baptiste Biot (1826)
"... in the spectrum of the blue part of a flame they do not exist, although there
is much of the more refrangible red."—British Critic- VII. ..."
5. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"Mountain light richer in highly refrangible rays. a. Atmospheric Precipitations.
Increased rainfall as altitude increases. Level of the greatest rainfall. ..."
6. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1859)
"If the law designated above, that the more energetically the chemical action in
combustion the more refrangible the emitted light, be translated into the ..."
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