refrangibility


Also found in: Medical, Encyclopedia.
Related to refrangibility: refraction

re·fran·gi·ble

 (rĭ-frăn′jə-bəl)
adj.
Capable of being refracted: refrangible rays of light.
[From Latin refringere, to refract (influenced by refract).]
re·fran′gi·bil′i·ty, re·fran′gi·ble·ness n.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Translations
Mentioned in ?
References in classic literature ?
I had a theory that the gravitation of refraction, being subsidiary to atmospheric compensation, the refrangibility of the earth's surface would emphasize this effect in regions where great mountain ranges occur, and possibly so even-handed impact the odic and idyllic forces together, the one upon the other, as to prevent the moon from rising higher than 12,200 feet above sea-level.
View in context
Experiments on the refrangibility of the invisible rays of the Sun.
A thermodynamic history of the solar constitution--I: the journey to a gaseous sun
A plain and easy experiment to confirm Sir Isaac Newton's doctrine of the different refrangibility of the rays of light.
Jean Theophile Desaguliers (1683-1744) and eighteenth century vision research

Dictionary browser ?
Full browser ?