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refringencies

refringencies is the plural of refringency.

Meaning of refringency

Noun

refringency (usually uncountable, plural refringencies)

  1. (usually) The power of a substance to refract a ray.
    • The velocity with which a luminous ray passes through a given body depends exclusively on the refringency of this body and on the velocity of emission of the ray, on the velocity it had in vacuo1843, Richard Taylor, Scientific Memoirs

Questions about refringencies

What is refringencies the plural of?
Refringencies is the plural of refringency.

Words near refringencies in the dictionary

  1. refrigs.
  2. refringe
  3. refringed
  4. refringence
  5. refringences
  6. refringencies
  7. refringency
  8. refringent
  9. refringes
  10. refringing
  11. refront

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