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 --
Here the story is how one story can and in fact needs to be refracted into many.
All too often, the demands from the social sectors are refracted because politicians interpret them in their own way.
The rays on each side of the bead are refracted by the particle.
Where indigenous voices are extant they are refracted through the prism of western knowledge and western science.
The tonal variety accorded it, first by the cello, then the viola, does seem to mirror the refracting effect of water on the visible.
The waves are refracted according to the ordinary refraction law deduced for non-moving magnetoactive plasmas.
When a laser beam is focused onto a dielectric sphere, the rays incident on the particle are reflected and refracted at the surface.
But "illusion" may be our only tool to refract the world as it is.
