Meanings
- uncountableThe quality or degree of being refrangible; refrangibility.
However, as the reflecting telescope is essentially free from aberration of refragability, as the purity of its images depends only on the perfection of a single surface, […]
1858, David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Annual of Scientific Discovery2 more examples
[…] that the rays emitted by solids at low temperature are invisible, but become red at 977° Fahrenheit, and augment in intensity, number and refragability at higher temperatures.
1882, The Medical Register of New York, New Jersey, and ConnecticutYet, we know that, besides those radiations which give us the sensation of light, there are others, in endless series, both higher and lower in their refragability, to which our eyes are absolutely blind.
1892, Medical Insurance and Health Conservation
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