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refragability

refragability noun: the quality or degree of being refrangible; refrangibility.

Noun

refragability (uncountable)

  1. The quality or degree of being refrangible; refrangibility.
    • However, as the reflecting telescope is essentially free from aberration of refragability, as the purity of its images depends only on the perfection of a single surface, […]1858, David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Annual of Scientific Discovery
    • […] that the rays emitted by solids at low temperature are invisible, but become red at 977° Fahrenheit, and augment in intensity, number and refragability at higher temperatures.1882, The Medical Register of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut

Questions about refragability

What does refragability mean?
Refragability means the quality or degree of being refrangible; refrangibility.
What part of speech is refragability?
Refragability is a noun.

Words near refragability in the dictionary

  1. refracts
  2. refracture
  3. refractured
  4. refractures
  5. refracturing
  6. refragability
  7. refragable
  8. refragableness
  9. refragment
  10. refragmentation
  11. refragmentations

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