The Collaborative International Dictionary
Refract \Re*fract"\ (r?*fr$kt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Refracted; p. pr. & vb. n. Refracting.] [L. refractus, p. p. of refringere; pref. re- re- + frangere to break: cf. F. r['e]fracter. SEe FRacture, and cf. Refrain, n.]
To bend sharply and abruptly back; to break off.
To break the natural course of, as rays of light orr heat, when passing from one transparent medium to another of different density; to cause to deviate from a direct course by an action distinct from reflection; as, a dense medium refrcts the rays of light as they pass into it from a rare medium.
Refracted \Re*fract"ed\, a.
(Bot. & Zo["o]l.) Bent backward angularly, as if half-broken; as, a refracted stem or leaf.
Turned from a direct course by refraction; as, refracted rays of light.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: refract)
Usage examples of "refracted".
The multihued prisms refracted the shifting twilight into a curtain of aurora borealis effects.
The pinkish walls shimmered with refracted light, making it seem like some exotic spaceport.
Because of the low gravity, a few well-timed bursts on his jetpack kept him flying for kilometer after kilometer, zooming through the ever-shifting kaleidoscope of refracted light and multicolored clusters.
Gold spears stabbed heavenwards like molten searchlights, refracted and diffused by the volcanic dust over the sea and the fine particles of sand whipping in from the desert which backs the port.
It was a trick of refracted light from the desert behind, I suppose, but it sent a spine-chilling thrill through me.
I switched my glasses to the north, but I suppose the refracted light destroyed some of the magnification, for a moment later, when I looked with the naked eye, I saw the three-topped hill, unmistakable, against the dun background.
Then, through the broken, spume-laden air on the landward side, my two mountains, like things primitive when the world was young, reared their dun crowns as the moon rose behind them, pale and strange in the queer refracted light which the salt-laden air of the sea, meeting the mica particles of the desert, had contrived.
Pressure ridges that formed sheer planes refracted rainbow fans of light back at the collar sensors.
There seemed to be an effete pink haze above the jungle, dusting the sharp seam between sky and land, like the flush of dawn refracted over a deep ocean.
Then the distortion smeared it with refracted scintillations from the gleaming starscraper, and it shot away at a bruising acceleration.
Her suit lights refracted off the gritty ice with its dark adumbrate core of sorrow and suffering.
Light refracted through the crystal in a hundred different directions, giving the inner gel an ethereal glow.
In the center of the vast cavern, the glowing cluster grew dark, and even the refracted sunlight in the cavern seemed to grow dim.
By the time his eyes adjusted to the dim, refracted light, his expression had changed from wonder to distress.
A few dozen South Watchlings stood at the edge of the road, tapering monoliths of translucent green and blue with fracture lines splitting the interiors into a maze of refracted light, the smallest among them five times Tasmin's height.