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Meaning of "refrangibility" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF REFRANGIBILITY

refrangibility  [rɪˌfrændʒɪˈbɪlɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF REFRANGIBILITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Refrangibility is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES REFRANGIBILITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of refrangibility in the English dictionary

The definition of refrangibility in the dictionary is the quality or state of being capable of being refracted or caused to undergo a change in direction of a propagating wave, such as light or sound.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH REFRANGIBILITY


ability
əˈbɪlɪtɪ
accessibility
əkˌsɛsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
accountability
əˌkaʊntəˈbɪlɪtɪ
availability
əˌveɪləˈbɪlɪtɪ
capability
ˌkeɪpəˈbɪlɪtɪ
compatibility
kəmˌpætɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
disability
ˌdɪsəˈbɪlɪtɪ
durability
ˌdjʊərəˈbɪlɪtɪ
eligibility
ˌɛlɪdʒɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
flexibility
ˌflɛksɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
inability
ˌɪnəˈbɪlɪtɪ
liability
ˌlaɪəˈbɪlɪtɪ
mobility
məʊˈbɪlɪtɪ
nobility
nəʊˈbɪlɪtɪ
possibility
ˌpɒsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
probability
ˌprɒbəˈbɪlɪtɪ
reliability
rɪˌlaɪəˈbɪlɪtɪ
responsibility
rɪˌspɒnsəˈbɪlɪtɪ
stability
stəˈbɪlɪtɪ
visibility
ˌvɪzɪˈbɪlɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE REFRANGIBILITY

refractive index
refractively
refractiveness
refractivity
refractometer
refractometric
refractometry
refractor
refractories
refractorily
refractoriness
refractory
refractory period
refracture
refrain
refrainer
refrainment
reframe
refrangible
refrangibleness

WORDS THAT END LIKE REFRANGIBILITY

agility
credibility
facility
feasibility
fertility
functionality
hostility
humility
inevitability
instability
merchantability
profitability
suitability
susceptibility
sustainability
tranquility
usability
utility
variability
versatility
vulnerability

Synonyms and antonyms of refrangibility in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «refrangibility» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF REFRANGIBILITY

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

Translator English - Chinese

折射性
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

refrangibilidad
570 millions of speakers

English

refrangibility
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

refrangibility
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

قابلية الانكسار
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

преломляемости
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

refrangibilidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

refrangibility
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

refrangibilité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kebolehubahan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Brechbarkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

refrangibility
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

refrangibility
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Refleksibilitas
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

refrangibility
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

refrangibility
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रेफेंजिबिलिटी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

refrangibility
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

rifrangibilità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

refrangibility
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

преломляемости
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

refrangibility
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

refrangibility
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

refrangibility
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

refrangibility
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

refrangibility
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of refrangibility

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «REFRANGIBILITY»

The term «refrangibility» is used very little and occupies the 184.685 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «REFRANGIBILITY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «refrangibility» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «refrangibility» 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 refrangibility

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «REFRANGIBILITY»

Discover the use of refrangibility in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to refrangibility and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical and physical ...
TIN. E The spectrum of the metal; a very fine series of 47 narrow bands extends from near the sodium line to wave-length 8 30331. Exposure 30 minutes. These bands are degraded towards the rays of least refrangibility. (“'2' fill fl Micrometer I  ...
Royal Society (Great Britain), 1895
2
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
'V~—'AIOXOOO(IN NJ O The spectrum of the metal; a very fine series of 47 narrow bands extends from near the sodium line to wave-length 30331. Exposure 30 minutes. These bands are degraded towards the rays of least refrangibility. TIN.
‎1895
3
The Philosophical Magazine
consists of three compartments, of which the median takes in the visible rays, and the two others, respectively, the rays of greater refrangibility and of less refrangibility than corresponds to visible or light-rays. In order to avoid circumlocution, ...
‎1865
4
The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and ...
And in a footnote here appended: — " It has been maintained by some philosophers of the first eminence that light of definite refrangibility mignt still be compound ; and though no longer decomposable by prismatic refraction may still be so by ...
‎1889
5
Elements of chemistry: theoretical and practical
300 CHANGE IN REFRANGIBILITY OF HEAT. radiated again it does not retain the peculiarities of the source from which it originated : the refrangibility of the re- radiated heat depends solely upon the temperature of the surface which emits it a  ...
William Allen Miller, 1867
6
Mathematical and Physical Papers
There is one law relating to the change of refrangibility which appears to be quite universal, namely, that the refrangibility of light is always lowered by internal dispersion. The incident rays being homogeneous, the dispersed light is found to be ...
George Gabriel Stokes, 1901
7
American Journal of Science
There is one law relating to the change of refrangibility which appears to be quite universal, namely, that the refrangibility of light is always lowered by internal dispersion. The incident light being homogeneous, the dispersed light is found to be ...
‎1853
8
Astronomical Spectrographs and Their History
1.1 COLOUR, REFRANGIBILITY AND WAVELENGTH The concepts of colour, refrangibility and wavelength have been crucial for the development of spectroscopes and spectroscopy. Indeed the first prism spectroscopes were built partly for ...
John Hearnshaw, 2009
9
A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary: Containing an ...
REFRANGIBILITY os Light, the disposition of the rays to be refracted. And a greater or less Refrangibility, isa disposition to be more or less refracted, in passing at equal angles of incidence into the fame medium. That the rays of light are ...
Charles Hutton, 1795
10
From 1672 to 1683
There are but three affections of light in which I have observed its rays to differ, viz. refrangibility, refiexibility, and colour; and those rays which agree in refrangibility agree also in the other two, and therefore may well be defined homogeneal, ...
‎1809

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «REFRANGIBILITY»

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Anders Jonas Ångström Google Doodles
... but deduced from Leonhard Euler's theory of resonance that an incandescent gas emits luminous rays of the same refrangibility as those it can absorb. «3D Car Shows, Aug 14»

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