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Fractional :: Fractional (a.) Relatively small; inconsiderable; insignificant; as, a fractional part of the population..

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..

Rainbow :: Rainbow (n.) A bow or arch exhibiting, in concentric bands, the several colors of the spectrum, and formed in the part of the hemisphere opposite to the sun by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays in drops of falling rain..

Refraction :: Refraction (n.) The correction which is to be deducted from the apparent altitude of a heavenly body on account of atmospheric refraction, in order to obtain the true altitude..

Fraction :: Fraction (n.) The act of breaking, or state of being broken, especially by violence..

Halo :: Halo (n.) A luminous circle, usually prismatically colored, round the sun or moon, and supposed to be caused by the refraction of light through crystals of ice in the atmosphere. Connected with halos there are often white bands, crosses, or arches, resulting from the same atmospheric conditions..

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

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

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..

Grating :: Grating (n.) A system of close equidistant and parallel lines lines or bars, especially lines ruled on a polished surface, used for producing spectra by diffraction; -- called also diffraction grating..

Reduce :: Reduce (n.) To change the form of a quantity or expression without altering its value; as, to reduce fractions to their lowest terms, to a common denominator, etc..

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

Fractionate :: Fractionate (v. t.) To separate into different portions or fractions, as in the distillation of liquids..

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

Seventieth :: Seventieth (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by seventy; one of seventy equal parts or fractions.

Refraction :: Refraction (n.) The change in the direction of a ray of light, and, consequently, in the apparent position of a heavenly body from which it emanates, arising from its passage through the earth's atmosphere; -- hence distinguished as atmospheric refraction, or astronomical refraction..

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

Prism :: Prism (n.) A transparent body, with usually three rectangular plane faces or sides, and two equal and parallel triangular ends or bases; -- used in experiments on refraction, dispersion, etc..

Scrip :: Scrip (n.) Paper fractional currency.

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