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ANGLE OF REFRACTION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does angle of refraction mean?
• ANGLE OF REFRACTION (noun)
The noun ANGLE OF REFRACTION has 1 sense:
1. the angle between a refracted ray and a line perpendicular to the surface between the two media at the point of refraction
Familiarity information: ANGLE OF REFRACTION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The angle between a refracted ray and a line perpendicular to the surface between the two media at the point of refraction
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("angle of refraction" is a kind of...):
angle (the space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians)
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