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What does refracting mean?

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  1. present participle of refract
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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.
This simple refracting telescope is still used in modern opera glasses, which are low-powered binoculars.
Two such glasses inclosed in a tube completed the invention of the simplest kind of the refracting telescope.
Has he ever tried writing music without refracting things through his own personal experience, divorcing himself from the act of creation?
Knowing refracting corner of a prism, it could then calculate hades and refractions.
Because glass does not transmit infrared radiation very efficiently, refracting telescopes are unsuitable for most kinds of infrared astronomy.

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