Definitions
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- noun See the quotation.
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- noun The quality or degree of being
refractive .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the physical property of a medium as determined by its index of refraction
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Examples
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The refractivity, however, shows a greater difference; for the admixture of helium and neon in the crude sample lowers the refractivity from 0.9665 for the pure gas to 0.961 or 0.960.
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Boyle's law revealed themselves, and further, investigations of the effect of pressure on the refractivity of water, the effect of pressure on the resistance of an electric conductor.
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In other words, the genome regions with the highest refractive index - undoubtedly enhanced by the proteins bound to the repetitive DNA - are concentrated in the interior, followed by the sequences with the next highest level of refractivity, to prevent against the scattering of light.
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The measure of this refractivity -- how much the atmosphere bends radio waves -- is called a "K-factor."
WBAY Action 2 News 2009
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I ineluctably stygian to the benefice refractivity and nonglutinous up arena quip in eucaryote for two dysgenesis.
Rational Review 2009
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Its pronounced refractivity, and the ease with which it may be worked, makes bakelite a favourite substitute for amber (Ger.
Synthetic Tannins Georg Grasser
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