Usually means: Bending of light through mediums.
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  1. refringency: Merriam-Webster
  2. refringency: Collins English Dictionary
  3. refringency: Wordnik
  4. refringency: Wiktionary
  5. Refringency, refringency: Dictionary.com
  6. Refringency: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. refringency: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Refringency: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. refringency: FreeDictionary.org
  10. refringency: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  11. Refringency: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (refringency)

▸ noun:  The power of a substance to refract a ray.

Similar:
refractedness, refractivity, refractility, refrangibility, refragability, refulgency, refractority, irrefrangibility, refractoriness, diffrangibility, more...

Opposite:
opacity, transparency, opaqueness

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Similar:
refractedness, refractivity, refractility, refrangibility, refragability, refulgency, refractority, irrefrangibility, refractoriness, diffrangibility, more...

Opposite:
opacity, transparency, opaqueness



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