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: --
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.
After the momentary premonition of a faster tempo, still unrealized, refracted oboe and clarinet lines once more hint at some unrevealed loveliness.
Where indigenous voices are extant they are refracted through the prism of western knowledge and western science.
There is always a refracted wave, but it transports a negligible amount of energy in general.
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.
