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Refractive adj. Serving or having power to refract, or turn from a direct course; pertaining to refraction; as, refractive surfaces; refractive powers.

Refractive index. (Opt.) See Index of refraction, under Index.

Absolute refractive index (Opt.), the index of refraction of a substances when the ray passes into it from a vacuum.

Relative refractive index (of two media) (Opt.), the ratio of the sine of the angle of incidence to the sine of the angle of refraction for a ray passing out of one of the media into the other.

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... often rely upon the more obvious sort of property, such as color, that they so frequently make mistakes. There may be several different types of stones of a given color, but each will be found to have its own numerical properties such as density, hardness, refractive power, dispersive power, etc., and it is only by an accurate determination of two or three of these that one can be sure what stone he has in hand. It must next be our task to find exactly what is meant by each of these ...

— A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public • Frank Bertram Wade

... to fuse refractive meteoric iron, would be no mean weapon, at close quarters. And the quarters would ...

— Salvage in Space • John Stewart Williamson

Words linked to "Refractive" : refractivity, refractile, refractive index, deflective, refract, refraction, crooked