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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.
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.
Because glass does not transmit infrared radiation very efficiently, refracting telescopes are unsuitable for most kinds of infrared astronomy.
Knowing refracting corner of a prism, it could then calculate hades and refractions.
Examples of refracting afocal systems include an ordinary Keplerian telescope, a Galilean telescope, and a lens-erecting telescope.

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