On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Refracted. Discover the meaning, how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Refracted meaning
simple past and past participle of refract
Using Refracted
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of refract
- In the example corpus, refracted often appears in combinations such as: is refracted, be refracted, refracted through.
Context around Refracted
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 8 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Refracted
- In this selection, "refracted" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, missteps, seem, celebration, sunlight, sky and less stand out and add context to how "refracted" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a celebration refracted through a and and being refracted through a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "refracted" sits close to words such as absentees, accruing and aerosmith, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with refracted
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Everything is refracted through post-campaign decompression and self-interest. (10 words)
Light is refracted by water droplets and then reflected back to your eyes. (13 words)
Mortality, aging and youthful missteps refracted through Amy’s insightful lyricism emerge not wistful but resolute even triumphant. (18 words)
A hot-road mirage, "fake water" on the road, the most common example of an inferior mirage Light from the sky at a shallow angle to the road is refracted by the index gradient, making it appear as if the sky is reflected by the road's surface. (48 words)
For example, it can be refracted like a wave, and has mass like a particle. citation A consequence of describing electrons as waveforms is that it is mathematically impossible to simultaneously derive the position and momentum of an electron. (39 words)
And is not this Medium the same with that Medium by which Light is refracted and reflected, and by whose Vibrations Light communicates Heat to Bodies, and is put into Fits of easy Reflexion and easy Transmission? (37 words)
And is not this Medium the same with that Medium by which Light is refracted and reflected, and by whose Vibrations Light communicates Heat to Bodies, and is put into Fits of easy Reflexion and easy Transmission? (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
I was struck by how well his muted canvas still captured the area’s rolling hills and refracted sunlight.
Mortality, aging and youthful missteps refracted through Amy’s insightful lyricism emerge not wistful but resolute even triumphant.
From certain angles, the male butterfly appears to have black wings intersected with white bands, but when bathed in sunlight an iridescent purple sheen appears as light is refracted through the scales of the wing.
Light is refracted by water droplets and then reflected back to your eyes.
Everything is refracted through post-campaign decompression and self-interest.
His beats seem refracted through a series of funhouse mirrors, never solidly in one place or another, and never quite in normal focus.
It’s a celebration, refracted through a Chinese video app for teens, of a potent force in American politics, and global politics, in the 21st century.
Derrick Pitts, the chief astronomer at Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute Science Museum, said it’s possible the light wavelength caused by the electrical arc refracted through tiny water droplets in the clouds, yielding a blue color.
Pink Floyd’s timeless Dark Side of the Moon album, released in March of 1973, is emblazoned with a now-iconic image of bright, focused light entering, and being refracted through, a prism.
A hot-road mirage, "fake water" on the road, the most common example of an inferior mirage Light from the sky at a shallow angle to the road is refracted by the index gradient, making it appear as if the sky is reflected by the road's surface.
And is not this Medium the same with that Medium by which Light is refracted and reflected, and by whose Vibrations Light communicates Heat to Bodies, and is put into Fits of easy Reflexion and easy Transmission?
A skip zone is an annular region between the farthest points at which the ground wave can be received and the nearest point at which the refracted sky waves can be received.
As light passes the border between media, depending upon the relative refractive indices of the two media, the light will either be refracted to a lesser angle, or a greater one.
As the frequency increases, each wave is refracted less by the ionization in the layer, and so each penetrates further before it is reflected.
A surface may absorb part of the light ray, resulting in a loss of intensity of the reflected and/or refracted light.
At the surfaces of the prism, Snell's law predicts that light incident at an angle θ to the normal will be refracted at an angle arcsin(sin (θ) / n).
Born and Wolf, sec.13.2, "Refraction and reflection at a metal surface" The refracted wave is exponentially attenuated, with exponent proportional to the imaginary component of the index of refraction.
Electromagnetic radiation (radio and television) Very high frequency radio waves can be refracted by inversions, making it possible to hear FM radio or watch VHF low -band television broadcasts from long distances on foggy nights.
For example, it can be refracted like a wave, and has mass like a particle. citation A consequence of describing electrons as waveforms is that it is mathematically impossible to simultaneously derive the position and momentum of an electron.
From here, the reflected and/or refracted rays may strike other surfaces, where their absorptive, refractive, reflective and fluorescent properties again affect the progress of the incoming rays.
Common combinations with refracted
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- is refracted 14×
- be refracted 10×
- refracted through 9×
- refracted by 7×
- and refracted 4×
- refracted and 3×
- the refracted 3×
- refracted light 3×
- refracted less 2×
- or refracted 2×