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Meaning of "refractable" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF REFRACTABLE

refractable  [rɪˈfræktəbəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF REFRACTABLE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Refractable is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH REFRACTABLE


abstractable
æbˈstræktəbəl
actable
ˈæktəbəl
collectable
kəˈlɛktəbəl
compactible
kəmˈpæktəbəl
contactable
kɒnˈtæktəbəl
delectable
dɪˈlɛktəbəl
distractible
dɪsˈtræktəbəl
exactable
ɪɡˈzæktəbəl
extractable
ɪkˈstræktəbəl
intractable
ɪnˈtræktəbəl
predictable
prɪˈdɪktəbəl
protractible
prəˈtræktəbəl
respectable
rɪˈspɛktəbəl
retractable
rɪˈtræktəbəl
retractible
rɪˈtræktəbəl
selectable
sɪˈlɛktəbəl
tractable
ˈtræktəbəl
unactable
ʌnˈæktəbəl
unpredictable
ˌʌnprɪˈdɪktəbəl
untractable
ʌnˈtræktəbəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE REFRACTABLE

refract
refractary
refractile
refracting
refracting angle
refracting telescope
refraction
refractive
refractive index
refractively
refractiveness
refractivity
refractometer
refractometric
refractometry
refractor
refractories
refractorily
refractoriness
refractory

WORDS THAT END LIKE REFRACTABLE

able
acceptable
accountable
adjustable
charitable
comfortable
inevitable
notable
on the table
palatable
portable
printable
profitable
stable
suitable
table
timetable
uncomfortable
unforgettable
unstable
vegetable

Synonyms and antonyms of refractable in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «refractable» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF REFRACTABLE

Find out the translation of refractable to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of refractable from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «refractable» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

refractable
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

refractable
570 millions of speakers

English

refractable
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

refractable
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

refractable
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

refractable
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

refractable
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

refractable
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

réfracté
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Boleh diperbaharui
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

refractable
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

refractable
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

refractable
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Refractable
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

refractable
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

refractable
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रीफेक्टेबल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

refractable
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

refractable
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

refractable
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

refractable
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

refractable
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

refractable
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

breekbaar
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

refractable
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

refractable
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of refractable

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «REFRACTABLE»

The term «refractable» is barely ever used and occupies the 205.921 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of refractable
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «REFRACTABLE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «refractable» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «refractable» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about refractable

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «REFRACTABLE»

Discover the use of refractable in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to refractable and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
On Vision and Colors
Furthermore, they must modify their refractability in such a way that, with the use of flint glass, the most refractable rays obtain a yet stronger refractability, whereas the least refractable rays obtain an even lesser refractability. In other words, flint ...
Arthur Schopenhauer, Georg Stahl, 2010
2
Postoperative-cataract Spectacle Lenses: Practical Optics, ...
Secondly, when speaking of aphakic distance acuity, we must speak in terms of " best refractable" visual acuity. We hereby state that we would never accept the aphakic acuity through any spectacle lens, as the "best refractable" acuity, unless  ...
Robert Cooper Welsh, 1961
3
The Athenæum
He showed that there was u striking analogy between the production of central white light, with complementary fringes of the least refractable rays on one edge, and the most refractable on the other, by refraction; and the production of a circle  ...
‎1834
4
Spectacles for aphakia
Subnormal Vision in Aphakia We may divide subnormal vision into distance and near, providing the refractive errors are taken care of by a best refractable distance correction and a normal (for age, etc.) near addition. In the nonaphakic group ...
Curtis D. Benton, Robert C. Welsh, 1977
5
Proceedings
I cannot quote all the figures, but he found that shortly after the children entered school, 18 per cent of them had refractable eye difficulties — about 18 out of 100. He claims that that is about what one might normally expect. He found as the ...
‎1949
6
Contemporary Russian: Contemporary Russian Translation Guide ...
... cut off, cease, drop, suspend, discontinue, dismiss, terminate преломляемый ( adjv) - refractable, refractive, refractile, deflected, refraction-related премий (noun ) - premium, prize, award, bonus, gratuity, premium премию (noun) - premium, ...
L L Downing, 2013
7
Sons of the Movement: FtMs Risking Incoherance on a ...
But where I want to call for a post-queer language economics, the gendering and, even more so, racial histories of the term “boi/boy” as a sign- chain seem to remain productively refractable. Wesley Crichlow's (2004: 15) groundbreaking work, ...
Jean Bobby Noble, 2006
8
Medical Commentaries for the Year ...: Exhibiting a Concise ...
Platina is melted in a few seconds ; and by continuing the heat, he has melted some of the most refractable precious stones. Mr Bertholet, another of our chemists, has lately wrote a paper upon the de- structibility of vegetable acids, which he ...
Andrew Duncan (Senior), 1783
9
The Meteor; or, General censor
... they seemed to think, it being new wood,and of a hard and refractable nature, that it would not hold, and as they knew of no cement strong enough to bind all its parts together, they daformed the structure by restriction ropes, which appeared ...
‎1817
10
Virgil's Homeric Lens
... demonstrate that there is no reason to presume automatically a canonical text of Homer in the Roman period.16 This would only make the “primary” texts more refractable in the hands of a skilled poet. Of course, I do not mean to suggest that  ...
Edan Dekel, 2012

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «REFRACTABLE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term refractable is used in the context of the following news items.
1
First patient in northern Virginia to receive new epilepsy treatment
... this is indicated for the one-third of all patients in the U.S., or anywhere in the world actually, who have drug resistant or pharmacological refractable epilepsy. «WHAG, Jul 15»
2
La teoría del color en Newton y Goethe
En 1671 afirmó: “La luz está formada por rayos diversamente refractables”. El espectro se forma porque la luz blanca contiene una mezcla de luces de un solo ... «La Cronica del Quindio, Mar 15»
3
Record sleeves of the month
The darkness comes by default with the technique [using a clamp stand, torch and refractable materials]. The images used are 35mm negative scans, and effects ... «Creative Review, May 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Refractable [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/refractable>. Jun 2026 ».
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