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To change the velocity of a beam of light (apparently bending it) or other wave-form as it passes (at an angle) from one medium into another.

They looked at each other and some refraction of the pain in Tom's heart must have shown in his eyes.
Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

Windows made of thick glass that refracted light both inside and out in subtle flashes of purple and blue.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
The rain hits like pellets against the bubble, which refracts the lights in strange circular and then semicircular waves as they go by.
Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
A shot through the windshield was almost certain to miss because of light refraction or bullet deflection.
Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon

Because as soon as Violet saw the flickering reflection, she remembered the scientific principles of the convergence and refraction of light.
Lemony Snicket -- The Wide Window

Teabing pointed toward a stained-glass window where the breaking sun was refracting through a white-clad knight riding a rose-colored horse.
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
Light played along its blade like water slipping down a sheer silver wall, like sunlight itself refracted.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Ashes
The debates that engaged the intellectual world filtered down to us in refracted and weakened distortions, like sunlight groping toward the ocean bed.
Russell Baker -- Growing Up
Of course, he had forgotten that water refracts, bends light.
Gary Paulsen -- Hatchet
At both ends of the alley the street lamps glowed through the murky air, refracted into mammoth balls of light.
Richard Wright -- Native Son
Translucent orbs of sap encrusted the seam, catching and refracting the light.
Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
In places Hollingsworth's advice revealed, by refraction, a certain Victorian raciness.
Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City

I found a general principle of pigments and refraction—a formula, a geometrical expression involving four dimensions.
H.G. Wells -- The Invisible Man

Morning mist refracted the rays of the sun, tumbling them into the valley like a river of molten gold.
James Vance Marshall -- Walkabout
And all that they said and did was refracted by her inattention and shot off towards the rim-bones of nothing.
Zora Neale Hurston -- Their Eyes Were Watching God
Lev twists the bracelet so a diamond refracts a sparkle of light right into CyFi's eye.
Neal Shusterman -- Unwind
But the room was filled with refracted moonglow, and even without that very likely she could have told what he was doing.
William Faulkner -- Light in August
All of which meant refracted or reflected light.
Nicholas Sparks -- True Believer
They stood in silence, in the glare of a single light refracted from the glass surface to their faces.
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
The impressions of objects underwent a considerable refraction before reaching his mind.
Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame

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