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Refractor  n.  Anything that refracts; specifically: (Opt.) A refracting telescope, in which the image to be viewed is formed by the refraction of light in passing through a convex lens.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Refractor" Quotes from Famous Books



... devised by Galileo is called the Refracting Telescope, or "Refractor." As we know it to-day it is the same in principle as his "optick tube," but it is not quite the same in construction. The early object-glass, or large glass at the end, was a single convex lens (see Fig. 8, p. 113, "Galilean"); the modern one is, on the other hand, composed of two lenses ...
— Astronomy of To-day - A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language • Cecil G. Dolmage



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