Refrangible

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. That can be refracted: refrangible rays of light.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. That may be refracted
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Capable of being refracted, or turned out of a direct course, in passing from one medium to another, as rays of light.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Capable of being refracted in passing from one medium to another, as rays of light. The violet rays in the spectrum are more refrangible than those of greater wave-length, as the red rays.
  • Word Usage
    "The calculation may be related to Edward Hussey Delaval's work on this subject, read at the Royal Society of London in January 1765 and published as a pamphlet later that year. 6 In that paper, Delaval related color to density, as specific gravity, suggesting that greater density should reflect the more refrangible rays. reference"
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