subject to refraction; "refract a light beam"
Used in a Sentence
refract
How to use refract in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for refract.
Editorial note
The light beam will refract and scatter through the glass/transparent plastic.
Examples10
Definitions2
Parts of speech1
Quick take
subject to refraction; "refract a light beam"
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of refract gathered in one view.
determine the refracting power of (a lens)
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for refract.
verb
subject to refraction; "refract a light beam"
verb
determine the refracting power of (a lens)
Example sentences
The light beam will refract and scatter through the glass/transparent plastic.
If we triple CO2 and install space glasses that refract sunlight so that it misses the earth, what will happen?
The eyes move, change focus and refract light differently hundreds of times per minute.
Objects radiate/reflect/refract light in various ways, and the way they do depends on the wave length of photons.
These bottles refract light thus illuminating a larger area.
Maybe the refraction and CO2's radiative forcing will cancel itself at some latitudes on some days.
That's how it falls off when being transmitted perfectly spherically in an environment that won't reflect or refract anything.
It's a wave, it's got a spectrum, different materials reflect, refract, and absorb various parts of the spectrum differently... sounds pretty similar!
When radiation penetrates a medium, each type of radiation may scatter, reflect, refract differently when interacting with the medium, depending on the material, if it's bone, flesh, metal dental fillings or implanted appliances or something else.
Wouldn't this be the most sensible approach?Rasterization in lay-man's terms really is just "figure out which triangle, if any, is 'hit' at this pixel", so a historically much faster and very neat hack to avoid the tracing of a ray..But you don't get cheap soft-shadowing / ambient occlusion / reflect-refract and you'd need to do occlusion culling seperately for current-gen "complex" scenes to avoid a drawcall for all kinds of hidden objects.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use refract in a sentence?
The light beam will refract and scatter through the glass/transparent plastic.
What does refract mean?
subject to refraction; "refract a light beam"
What part of speech is refract?
refract is commonly used as verb.