Word Meanings - REFRINGENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to, or possessing, refringency; refractive; refracting; as, a refringent prism of spar. Nichol.

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• POSSESSIVE
  Of or pertaining to possession; having or indicating possession. Possessive case , the genitive case; the case of nouns and pronouns which expresses ownership, origin, or some possessive relation of one thing to another; as, Homer's admirers; the
• REFRACTOR
  Anything that refracts; specifically:
• REFRACTIVE
  Serving or having power to refract, or turn from a direct course; pertaining to refraction; as, refractive surfaces; refractive powers. Refractive index. See Index of refraction, under Index. -- Absolute refractive index , the index of refraction
• PRISM
  A solid whose bases or ends are any similar, equal, and parallel plane figures, and whose sides are parallelograms. Note: Prisms of different forms are often named from the figure of their bases; as, a triangular prism, a quadrangular
• REFRACTED
  Bent backward angularly, as if half-broken; as, a refracted stem or leaf. 2. Turned from a direct course by refraction; as, refracted rays of light.
• POSSESSIONER
  1. A possessor; a property holder. "Possessioners of riches." E. Hall. Having been of old freemen and possessioners. Sir P. Sidney. 2. An invidious name for a member of any religious community endowed with property in lands, buildings, etc.,
• REFRACTABLE
  Capable of being refracted.
• REFRACTURE
  A second breaking by the surgeon.
• PRISMATOIDAL
  Having a prismlike form. Ure.
• PRISMOIDAL
  Having the form of a prismoid; as, prismoidal solids.
• POSSESSIONARY
  Of or pertaining to possession; arising from possession.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• POSSESSOR
  One who possesses; one who occupies, holds, owns, or controls; one who has actual participation or enjoyment, generally of that which is desirable; a proprietor. "Possessors of eternal glory." Law. As if he had been possessor of the whole world.
• REFRACTION
  1. The act of refracting, or the state of being refracted. 2. The change in the direction of ray of light, heat, or the like, when it enters obliquely a medium of a different density from that through which it has previously moved. Refraction out
• REFRACTIVENESS
  The quality or condition of being refractive.
• REFRACTOMETER
  A contrivance for exhibiting and measuring the refraction of light.
• REFRACTORY
  1. Obstinate in disobedience; contumacious; stubborn; unmanageable; as, a refractory child; a refractory beast. Raging appetites that are Most disobedient and refractory. Shak. 2. Resisting ordinary treatment; difficult of fusion, reduction, or
• PRISMOID
  A body that approaches to the form of a prism.
• REFRINGENCY
  The power possessed by a substance to refract a ray; as, different substances have different refringencies. Nichol.
• POSSESSION
  The having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command; actual seizin or occupancy; ownership, whether rightful or wrongful. Note: Possession may be either actual or constructive; actual, when a party has the immediate occupancy;
• DIPRISMATIC
  Doubly prismatic.
• DISPOSSESS
  To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown. Usurp the land, and dispossess
• REPOSSESS
  To possess again; as, to repossess the land. Pope. To repossess one's self of , to acquire again .
• UNPOSSESS
  To be without, or to resign, possession of.
• DISPOSSESSOR
  One who dispossesses. Cowley.
• FOREPOSSESSED
  1. Holding or held formerly in possession. 2. Preoccupied; prepossessed; preëngaged. Not extremely forepossessed with prejudice. Bp. Sanderson.
• DISPOSSESSION
  The putting out of possession, wrongfully or otherwise, of one who is in possession of a freehold, no matter in what title; -- called also ouster. (more info) 1. The act of putting out of possession; the state of being dispossessed. Bp. Hall.
• SELF-POSSESSION
  The possession of one's powers; calmness; self-command; presence of mind; composure.