0 present 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 tonal variety accorded it, first by the cello, then the viola, does seem to mirror the refracting effect of water on the visible.
In the case of rainbows, it is the light refracting and reflecting off water droplets, not light reflecting off the rainbows themselves, that permits rainbows to be seen.
He reported having observed that those elements consisted of a fully transparent, strongly refracting substance, and that they were shaped like palisades and had smooth surfaces.
The observatory's main feature was a refracting telescope with 1800mm focal length.
Furthermore, chromatic aberrations can be corrected by using two or more refracting materials over the full visible range.
They serve important symbolic functions such as capturing, refracting, and legitimating social knowledge and values.
Its crystals are doubly refracting, and exhibit a banded structure in polarized light.
Suppose a doubly refracting mineral section so placed that it is extinguished; if now is rotated through 45 degrees it will be brightly illuminated.
