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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
(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.)
(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.)
(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.)
(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.)
(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.)
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