The Only Use
refract
in
Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen
(Edited)
- Of course, he had forgotten that water refracts, bends light.
p. 118.9refracts = To change the velocity of a beam of light (apparently bending it) as it passes (at an angle) from one medium into another.
Definitions:
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(1)
(refract) to change the velocity of a beam of light or other wave-form as it passes from one medium into another (apparently bending it when passing at an angle)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)