refract in English

verb
1
(of water, air, or glass) make (a ray of light) change direction when it enters at an angle.
the rays of light are refracted by the material of the lens

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1. Like light, seismic waves can reflect and refract off a surface.

2. 2015 Short Copolymer chains refract shorter wavelengths of light: ultraviolet, blues

3. Explain why different colours refract by differing amounts in the prism.

4. These crystals refract and reflect light, producing the shells’ much-admired iridescent appearance.

5. Round Brilliant diamond has the highest ability to refract and light.

6. Super shining reflection particles can refract light, and make lips shining with excellent effect.

7. If you have angles less than 48. 8 degrees, it will refract

8. Iridocytes, cells containing mirrored plates, refract light to match the color of the octopus’ surroundings.

9. As we age the lenses of the eyes thicken,[sentencedict .com] and thus refract light dif-ferently.

10. As we age the lenses of the eyes thicken, and thus refract light dif-ferently.

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12. The dream is the mirror of mind, it can refract an everybody's heart road rain distance.

13. Precision-cut, liberated from the leadline, the mosaic edges refract the light in scintillating, unpredictable ways.

14. The slanted edges of Bevels refract light into a rainbow of colors -- both inside the glass, and onto your walls, floors and ceilings

15. All raindrops refract and reflect the sunlight in the same way, but only the light from some raindrops reaches the observer's eye.

16. Here’s the trick: The panel is a matrix consisting of pixel-sized lenses, which alternately refract light into two different directions.

17. The device comprises an acoustic transducer (10 and an acoustic lens (20) arranged to variably refract the said acoustic pulse to and/or from the acoustic transducer.

18. “The Cyclorama is a prism through which we can refract the current debate about heritage into fact-based history,” he said in his speech

19. Illuminating under a very steep angle from below the side face of a nearly completely water-filled cylindrical glass will refract the light into the water.

20. Newtonians explain this by saying that the achromatic refractor's crown glass and flint glass refract light as a whole with equal intensity but disperse individual colors differently.

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