refractive

refract | American Dictionary

refract
verb[ T ]
us/rɪˈfrækt/
physics
to change the direction of light, sound, heat, or other energy as it travels across or through something

Examples of refract

refract
The pressures of globalization are filtered and refracted through nation-specific institutions.
The play of 'correspondances' within and among these poems yields a spiritual itinerary the more vibrant for being refracted through a diversity of styles.
Genres, like records, do not rest in one site, but refract into multiple and successive transfigurations of musical meaning.
The waves are refracted according to the ordinary refraction law deduced for non-moving magnetoactive plasma.
Part of the light is refracted into the liquid.
In this cavity the light penetrates, and the rays are refracted and trapped.
When it is refracted in the interface a second and third phase appear.
But "illusion" may be our only tool to refract the world as it is.
When a laser beam is focused onto a dielectric sphere, the rays incident on the particle are reflected and refracted at the surface.
The waves are refracted according to the ordinary refraction law deduced for non-moving magnetoactive plasmas.
The tonal variety accorded it, first by the cello, then the viola, does seem to mirror the refracting effect of water on the visible.
Where indigenous voices are extant they are refracted through the prism of western knowledge and western science.
The rays on each side of the bead are refracted by the particle.
All too often, the demands from the social sectors are refracted because politicians interpret them in their own way.
Here the story is how one story can and in fact needs to be refracted into many.
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