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re·fract (rĭ-frăkt́)

[Latin refringere, refrāct-, to break up, re-, re-, + frangere, to break.]

transitive verb: -fract·ed, -fract·ing, -fracts. 

  1. To deflect (light, for example) from a straight path by refraction.
  2. To alter by viewing through a medium: “In the Quartet reality is refracted through a variety of eyes” (Elizabeth Kastor)
  3. Medicine To determine the refraction of (an eye, for example).