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What does refracting mean?

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  1. present participle of refract
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Two such glasses inclosed in a tube completed the invention of the simplest kind of the refracting telescope.
On a smooth surface, a fingerprint can stand out on its own, refracting light differently than the surface below.
Knowing refracting corner of a prism, it could then calculate hades and refractions.
This simple refracting telescope is still used in modern opera glasses, which are low-powered binoculars.
Newton was led by this reasoning to the erroneous conclusion that telescopes using refracting lenses would always suffer chromatic aberration.
Not only is the roof above them made of glass, it is also filled with water, further refracting the light received in the public spaces below.

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