Usually means: Bending of light through mediums.
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  1. refracting: Merriam-Webster
  2. refracting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. refracting: Vocabulary.com
  4. refracting: Wordnik
  5. refracting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. refracting: Wiktionary
  7. Refracting, refracting: Dictionary.com
  8. Refracting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Refracting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. refracting: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Refracting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. refracting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. refracting: FreeDictionary.org
  14. refracting: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. refracting: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. refracting: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. refracting: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (refracting)

▸ noun:  An act of refraction.

Similar:
reflection, refrenation, referment, Ref., refraining, reversing, refurnishment, reefing, refundment, refurbishing, more...

Opposite:
reflecting, deflecting, redirecting

Types:
binoculars, telescopes, microscopes, spotting scopes, monoculars, more...

Phrases:
refracting telescope, refracting telescopes, refracting medium, refracting angle, refracting media, more...

Adjectives:
double, more, spherical, less, singly, single, light, highly, simple, ordinary, downward



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Similar:
reflection, refrenation, referment, Ref., refraining, reversing, refurnishment, reefing, refundment, refurbishing, more...

Opposite:
reflecting, deflecting, redirecting

Types:
binoculars, telescopes, microscopes, spotting scopes, monoculars, more...

Phrases:
refracting telescope, refracting telescopes, refracting medium, refracting angle, refracting media, refracting angles, refracting index, refracting angle of a prism, refracting device, refracting light, more...

Adjectives:
double, more, spherical, less, singly, single, light, highly, simple, ordinary, downward



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