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発音

• 韻: -ækt

動詞

refract (third-person singular simple present refracts, present participle refracting, simple past and past participle refracted)

1. (transitive, physics) Of a medium, substance, object, etc.: to deflect the course of (light rays), esp. when they enter the medium, etc., at an oblique angle; to cause refraction of (light, other electromagnetic radiation, or sound or other wave phenomena).
2. (transitive, figurative) To mediate; to alter; to distort.
3. (transitive, optics) To cause (light) to change direction as a result of entering a different medium.
4. (transitive, ophthalmology) To measure, and often also to correct with lenses, the refractive error of (an eye) or the eyes of (a person).

   A prism can refract light.

派生語

• refracting
• refracting telescope

関連する語

参考

• reflect

アナグラム

• crafter, recraft