Usually means: Bending of light through mediums.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word refractive:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. refractive: Merriam-Webster
  2. refractive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. refractive: Collins English Dictionary
  4. refractive: Vocabulary.com
  5. Refractive, refractive: Wordnik
  6. refractive: Wiktionary
  7. refractive: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. refractive: Dictionary.com
  9. Refractive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. refractive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. refractive: Rhymezone
  12. Refractive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. refractive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. refractive: FreeDictionary.org
  15. refractive: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. refractive: Mnemonic Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. refractive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. refractive: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. refractive: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (refractive)

▸ adjective:  That refracts; causing or relating to refraction.

Similar:
crooked, deflective, refractional, refractometric, autorefractive, reflectory, photorefractive, reflectional, diffractional, reafferent, more...

Opposite:
non-refractive, reflective, transparent

Types:
myopic, farsighted, astigmatic, presbyopic, more...

Phrases:
refractive index, refractive indices, Refractive error, refractive errors, Refractive surgery, more...

Adjectives:
more, less, highly, singly, high, double, different, oleiferous, weakly, acute, low

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Similar:
crooked, deflective, refractional, refractometric, autorefractive, reflectory, photorefractive, reflectional, diffractional, reafferent, more...

Opposite:
non-refractive, reflective, transparent

Types:
myopic, farsighted, astigmatic, presbyopic, more...

Phrases:
refractive index, refractive indices, Refractive error, refractive errors, Refractive surgery, refractive power, refractive indexes, refractive correction, refractive media, refractive keratoplasty, more...

Adjectives:
more, less, highly, singly, high, double, different, oleiferous, weakly, acute, low



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