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What does refracting mean?

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  1. present participle of refract
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It acted like a prism on the setting sunlight striking it, refracting the light in much the same way as a crystal would.
Examples of refracting afocal systems include an ordinary Keplerian telescope, a Galilean telescope, and a lens-erecting telescope.
You can also combine our zoom and wide angle lenses using our adapter with astronomical refracting telescopes.
On a smooth surface, a fingerprint can stand out on its own, refracting light differently than the surface below.
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.

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