0 When water or glass, etc. refracts light or sound, etc., it causes it to change direction or to separate when it travels through it:
1 to change the direction of light, sound, heat, or other energy as it travels across or through something
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.
Genres, like records, do not rest in one site, but refract into multiple and successive transfigurations of musical meaning.
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.
But "illusion" may be our only tool to refract the world as it is.
