Vocabulary : Refound to Refractometer

Refound : To found or cast anew. ;; To found or establish again; to re/stablish. ;; imp. & p. p. of Refind, v. t.
Refounder : One who refounds.
Refract : To bend sharply and abruptly back; to break off. ;; 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.
Refractable : Capable of being refracted.
Refracted : of Refract ;; Bent backward angularly, as if half-broken; as, a refracted stem or leaf. ;; Turned from a direct course by refraction; as, refracted rays of light.

Refracting : of Refract ;; Serving or tending to refract; as, a refracting medium.
Refraction : The act of refracting, or the state of being refracted. ;; The change in the direction of ray of light, heat, or the like, when it enters obliquely a medium of a different density from that through which it has previously moved. ;; The change in the direction of a ray of light, and, consequently, in the apparent position of a heavenly body from which it emanates, arising from its passage through the earth's atmosphere; -- hence distinguished as atmospheric refraction, or astronomical refraction. ;; The correction which is to be deducted from the apparent altitude of a heavenly body on account of atmospheric refraction, in order to obtain the true altitude.
Refractive : Serving or having power to refract, or turn from a direct course; pertaining to refraction; as, refractive surfaces; refractive powers.
Refractiveness : The quality or condition of being refractive.
Refractometer : A contrivance for exhibiting and measuring the refraction of light.

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