Usually means: Bends light passing through mediums.
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  1. refracts: Merriam-Webster
  2. refracts: Collins English Dictionary
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  5. refracts: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  8. Refracts: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  1. refracts: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. refracts: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (refract)

verb:  (transitive, physics) Of a medium, substance, object, etc.: to deflect the course of (light rays), esp. when they enter the medium, etc., at an oblique angle; to cause refraction of (light, other electromagnetic radiation, or sound or other wave phenomena).
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To mediate; to alter; to distort.
verb:  (transitive, optics) To cause (light) to change direction as a result of entering a different medium.
verb:  (transitive, ophthalmology) To measure, and often also to correct with lenses, the refractive error of (an eye) or the eyes of (a person).
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