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refract

pronunciation:: rih fraekt
features:: Word Parts

part of speech:	transitive verb
inflections:	refracts, refracting, refracted
definition:	to bend (rays or waves of light, heat, sound, or the like) in passing (them) obliquely from one medium into another which transmits them at a different speed. The rays of light are refracted by the prism.
related words:	diffuse
derivations:	refractive (adj.), refractivity (n.)

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