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Refracting meaning
present participle and gerund of refract
Using Refracting
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of refract
- In the example corpus, refracting often appears in combinations such as: refracting telescope, the refracting, light refracting.
Context around Refracting
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 10 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 16 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Refracting
- In this selection, "refracting" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, light, inch, keeps, telescope, light and crystals stand out and add context to how "refracting" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 6 inch refracting telescope and by double refracting crystals was. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "refracting" sits close to words such as aaaa, abductees and abdulahi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with refracting
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A drop of water on an Asteraceae Droplets of water refracting a small flower. (14 words)
Chris Schur photographed the comet again on the morning of July 5th with a 6-inch refracting telescope. (18 words)
From this work he concluded that any refracting telescope would suffer from the dispersion of light into colours. (18 words)
A show that began 16 years ago refracting every singer through the lens of Simon Cowell’s dry British wit and drill-sergeant pursuit of excellence is now spinning them through Perry’s anything-for-a-joke sensibility and sincere commitment to insincerity. (43 words)
Fresnel lighthouse lenses are ranked by order, a measure of refracting power, with a first order lens being the largest, most powerful and expensive; and a sixth order lens being the smallest. (32 words)
It also houses the astronomical instruments used to make meridian observations and the 28-inch equatorial Grubb refracting telescope of 1893, the largest of its kind in the UK. (29 words)
Example sentences (16)
Chris Schur photographed the comet again on the morning of July 5th with a 6-inch refracting telescope.
Everything gets messed up because of mutations, and as Radek later explains to the group, they’re basically inside of a prism, so everything is refracting.
Kind of like a disco ball, the snow keeps refracting light until it’s bent right out the pile.
A show that began 16 years ago refracting every singer through the lens of Simon Cowell’s dry British wit and drill-sergeant pursuit of excellence is now spinning them through Perry’s anything-for-a-joke sensibility and sincere commitment to insincerity.
A drop of water on an Asteraceae Droplets of water refracting a small flower.
Bose’s first scientific paper, "On polarisation of electric rays by double-refracting crystals" was communicated to the Asiatic Society of Bengal in May 1895.
Dyar and Gunter, pp. 24–26 In contrast, the play of colours in opal is caused by light refracting from ordered microscopic silica spheres within its physical structure.
Fresnel lighthouse lenses are ranked by order, a measure of refracting power, with a first order lens being the largest, most powerful and expensive; and a sixth order lens being the smallest.
From this work he concluded that any refracting telescope would suffer from the dispersion of light into colours.
He began observing Venus in detail in mid-1896 soon after the convert Alvan Clark & Sons refracting telescope was installed at his new Flagstaff, Arizona observatory.
In 1666, Isaac Newton argued that the faults of the refracting telescope were fundamental because the lens refracted light of different colors differently.
It also houses the astronomical instruments used to make meridian observations and the 28-inch equatorial Grubb refracting telescope of 1893, the largest of its kind in the UK.
It is seen (ignoring exceptional cases) that the pencil does not meet the refracting or reflecting surface at right angles; therefore it is astigmatic (Gr.
Labradorite frequently shows an iridescent display of colors due to light refracting within the lamellae of the crystal.
Optics, bk. i. pt. ii. prop. 3 From these experiments Newton concluded that no improvement could be made in the refracting telescope.
Some have refracting superposition compound eyes: these combine the output of many elements of their compound eyes to provide enough light for each retinal photoreceptor.
Common combinations with refracting
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: