refraction
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- noun
- /rɪˈfrækʃən/
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refracción
- The refraction of light through the prism created a rainbow effect on the wall.
- index of refraction
- wave refraction
- refraction and reflection
There's laws of refraction of light going on here.
- There's laws of refraction of light going on here.
- If an object is too close to the lens, the refraction can no longer converge the light.
- This is known as the principle of lease time or as Fermat's principle, and it works for both reflection and refraction.
- And meta materials allow you to have an index of refraction which governs the bending of light and have negative index of refraction.
- So things like reflections of refractions, subsurface scattering suddenly become a lot more easy.
- One of the biggest brain busting his examples of refraction you've seen, you may not have realized a sunset.
- But there are times when you are seeing a shenomenon known as refraction or diffraction to different phenomena that naturally they work.
Examples
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If an object is too close to the lens, the refraction can no longer converge the light.
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So you get refraction of light toward the normal, and then it goes out again and it goes and it's a single pass only.
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The double what? - The double refraction.
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There are waves of connection but also of refraction, interference, and shift.
Academic text (2008) -
And we learned about the refraction law and also Snell's law.
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The world's leading expert on laser refraction.
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Sugar and syrup have an index of refraction that's quite a bit higher than water.
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Refraction of light.
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A fiber grating is a periodic variation in the index of refraction over the length of the fiber.
Academic text (1999) -
Lit from within, the pool threw woozy refractions onto the surrounding cinder-block walls.
Fiction book (1999)
Compounds
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A number showing how much light slows in a material compared to empty space
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A beam of light that splits into two rays that vibrate at right angles in some crystals
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The angle between a bent light ray and the line at right angles to the surface
How Much
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Surface Forms
Morphology
refraction = refract (opaque) = re + fract + ion
The suffix '-ion' straightforwardly forms a noun naming the process from the verb 'refract'.
Etymology
The word refraction comes from the Latin root frangere, which means 'to break'. A helpful image is a stick in water that looks bent because light changes direction when it moves from air into water, so the light seems to 'break' its straight path and that is why refraction means the bending or change of direction of a wave as it passes between materials.