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Refracted

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re·fract  (r-frkt)
tr.v. re·fract·ed, re·fract·ing, re·fracts
1. To deflect (light, for example) from a straight path by refraction.
2. To alter by viewing through a medium: "In the Quartet reality is refracted through a variety of eyes" (Elizabeth Kastor).
3. Medicine To determine the refraction of (an eye, for example).
[Latin refringere, refrct-, to break up : re-, re- + frangere, to break; see bhreg- in Indo-European roots.]


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It was near noon; I knew by the perpendicularity of the sun's rays, which were no longer refracted.
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules View in context
The winter sunrise was painting the east; and as the window was to the back of the house, it shone into the room with many strange colours of refracted light.
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; during which time, by reason of the rays refracted by its atmosphere, the terrestrial globe can appear as nothing but a black point upon the sun.
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