refract
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
subject to refraction
refract a light beam
Types & categories
- subject hypernym
Related & opposite
- refraction derivation
- deflective derivation
- refractive derivation
- optics domain topic
Sense 2 verb
determine the refracting power of (a lens)
Types & categories
- find out hypernym
Related & opposite
- deflective derivation
- refractive derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | refraction |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | deflective |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | refractive |
| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | optics |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | subject |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | deflective |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | refractive |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | find out |