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Refraction

The act of refracting, or the state of being refracted.

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Bend 76% connected

To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to ben…

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Bending 76% connected

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Refract 74% connected

To bend sharply and abruptly back; to break off.

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Refract 74% connected

To bend sharply and abruptly back; to break off.

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Deflection 92% connected

The act of turning aside, or state of being turned aside; a turning from a right line or proper course; a bending, esp. downward; deviation.

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Deflexion 92% connected

See Deflection.

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Gravitational wave noun · 85% connection

(physics) a wave that is hypothesized to propagate gravity and to travel at the speed of light

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Gravity wave noun · 85% connection

(physics) a wave that is hypothesized to propagate gravity and to travel at the speed of light

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(physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean

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(physics) a movement up and down or back and forth

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Vibration noun · 85% connection

(physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean

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(physics) a movement up and down or back and forth

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(astronomy) the rising of a star above the horizon

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Acoustic wave noun · 85% connection

(acoustics) a wave that transmits sound

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Blast wave noun · 85% connection

a region of high pressure travelling through a gas at a high velocity; "the explosion created a shock wave"

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the motion made by flapping up and down

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Flapping noun · 85% connection

the motion made by flapping up and down

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Fluctuation noun · 85% connection

a wave motion; "the fluctuations of the sea"

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Flutter noun · 85% connection

the motion made by flapping up and down

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Fluttering noun · 85% connection

the motion made by flapping up and down

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Impulse noun · 85% connection

(electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients); "the pulsations seemed to be com…

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Pulsation noun · 85% connection

(electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients); "the pulsations seemed to be com…

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(electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients); "the pulsations seemed to be com…

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Ametropia noun · 78% connection

Any abnormal condition of the refracting powers of the eye.

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Blue noun · 78% connection

One of the seven colors into which the rays of light divide themselves, when refracted through a glass prism; the color of the clear s…

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Diacaustic noun · 78% connection

A curved formed by the consecutive intersections of rays of light refracted through a lens.

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Diacoustic adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to the science or doctrine of refracted sounds.

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Diaphonics noun · 78% connection

The doctrine of refracted sound; diacoustics.

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Discolith noun · 78% connection

One of a species of coccoliths, having an oval discoidal body, with a thick strongly refracting rim, and a thinner central portion. On…

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Disdiaclast noun · 78% connection

One of the dark particles forming the doubly refracting disks of muscle fibers.

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Glaucoma noun · 78% connection

Dimness or abolition of sight, with a diminution of transparency, a bluish or greenish tinge of the refracting media of the eye, and a…

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Image noun · 78% connection

The figure or picture of any object formed at the focus of a lens or mirror, by rays of light from the several points of the object sy…

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Irrefrangible adjective · 78% connection

Not refrangible; that can not be refracted in passing from one medium to another.

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Polarizer noun · 78% connection

That which polarizes; especially, the part of a polariscope which receives and polarizes the light. It is usually a reflecting plate,…

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Refractable adjective · 78% connection

Capable of being refracted.

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