Dictionary Entry
refract
refract is a 7-letter English word with 4 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To bend sharply and abruptly back; to break off. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 13 · 4 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
To bend sharply and abruptly back; to break off.
- 2noun
To break the natural course of, as rays of light orr heat, when passing from one transparent medium to another of different density; to cause to deviate from a direct course by an action distinct from reflection; as, a dense medium refrcts the rays of light as they pass into it from a rare medium.
- 3verb
determine the refracting power of (a lens)
- 4verb
subject to refraction
"refract a light beam"
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