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Numerator :: Numerator (n.) The term in a fraction which indicates the number of fractional units that are taken.

Anaclastic :: Anaclastic (a.) Produced by the refraction of light, as seen through water; as, anaclastic curves..

Spectrum :: Spectrum (n.) The several colored and other rays of which light is composed, separated by the refraction of a prism or other means, and observed or studied either as spread out on a screen, by direct vision, by photography, or otherwise. See Illust. of Light, and Spectroscope..

Diacaustic :: Diacaustic (a.) Pertaining to, or possessing the properties of, a species of caustic curves formed by refraction. See Caustic surface, under Caustic..

Denominator :: Denominator (n.) That part of any expression under a fractional form which is situated below the horizontal line signifying division.

Refraction :: Refraction (n.) The act of refracting, or the state of being refracted..

Measure :: Measure (n.) A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is estimated and stated; hence, a rule by which anything is adjusted or judged..

Catadioptrical :: Catadioptrical (a.) Pertaining to, produced by, or involving, both the reflection and refraction of light; as, a catadioptric light..

Diacaustic :: Diacaustic (n.) That which burns by refraction, as a double convex lens, or the sun's rays concentrated by such a lens, sometimes used as a cautery..

Aphakia :: Aphakia (n.) An anomalous state of refraction caused by the absence of the crystalline lens, as after operations for cataract. The remedy is the use of powerful convex lenses..

Iceland Spar :: Iceland spar () A transparent variety of calcite, the best of which is obtained in Iceland. It is used for the prisms of the polariscope, because of its strong double refraction. Cf. Calcite..

Stereoscopic :: Stereoscope (n.) An optical instrument for giving to pictures the appearance of solid forms, as seen in nature. It combines in one, through a bending of the rays of light, two pictures, taken for the purpose from points of view a little way apart. It is furnished with two eyeglasses, and by refraction or reflection the pictures are superimposed, so as to appear as one to the observer..

Decimal :: Decimal (n.) A number expressed in the scale of tens; specifically, and almost exclusively, used as synonymous with a decimal fraction..

Argument :: Argument (n.) The quantity on which another quantity in a table depends; as, the altitude is the argument of the refraction..

Integer :: Integer (n.) A complete entity; a whole number, in contradistinction to a fraction or a mixed number..

Fractionary :: Fractionary (a.) Fractional.

Millesimal :: Millesimal (a.) Thousandth; consisting of thousandth parts; as, millesimal fractions..

Sexagesimal :: Sexagesimal (n.) A sexagesimal fraction.

Fractionally :: Fractionally (adv.) By fractions or separate portions; as, to distill a liquid fractionally, that is, so as to separate different portions..

Separatrix :: Separatrix (n.) The decimal point; the dot placed at the left of a decimal fraction, to separate it from the whole number which it follows. The term is sometimes also applied to other marks of separation..

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