Usually means: Altering light's path through mediums.
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General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. refractively: Merriam-Webster
  2. refractively: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. refractively: Collins English Dictionary
  4. refractively: Wiktionary
  5. refractively: Dictionary.com
  6. refractively: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. refractively: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. refractively: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. refractively: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (refractively)

▸ adverb:  In a refractive manner
▸ adverb:  By means of refraction

Similar:
photorefractively, birefringently, refractometrically, reflectionally, refractorily, reflectedly, metareflectively, diffractively, reflectometrically, dioptrically, more...

Opposite:
reflectively, absorptively, transmissively

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Similar:
photorefractively, birefringently, refractometrically, reflectionally, refractorily, reflectedly, metareflectively, diffractively, reflectometrically, dioptrically, more...

Opposite:
reflectively, absorptively, transmissively



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