0 past simple and past participle of refract
1 When water or glass, etc. refracts light or sound, etc., it causes it to change direction or to separate when it travels through it:
The pressures of globalization are filtered and refracted through nation-specific institutions.
The play of 'correspondances' within and among these poems yields a spiritual itinerary the more vibrant for being refracted through a diversity of styles.
This led to the formation of refracted fractures close to the outer arc of the folds that form the refracted quartz veins.
The waves are refracted according to the ordinary refraction law deduced for non-moving magnetoactive plasma.
Part of the light is refracted into the liquid.
In this cavity the light penetrates, and the rays are refracted and trapped.
When it is refracted in the interface a second and third phase appear.
When a laser beam is focused onto a dielectric sphere, the rays incident on the particle are reflected and refracted at the surface.
