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Refract   Listen
verb
Refract  v. t.  (past & past part. refracted; pres. part. refracting)  
1.
To bend sharply and abruptly back; to break off.
2.
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.






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