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• Eyes that are not optimized in this way are said to have refractive errors (long sight or short sight).
• Similarly, the variation of distance refraction and the presence of astigmatism is also lower than for humans.
• The segments differ from each other as regards refraction and in their behavior toward coloring reagents; the inner segment is stained by carmine, iodine, etc.; the outer segment is not stained by these reagents, but is colored yellowish brown by osmic acid. X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1c. 1. The Tunics of the Eye
• The laser's optical system would have to overcome the distorting effect of atmospheric turbulence, the variations in pressure and temperature that refract starlight to create the "twinkling" effect in the night sky. Pentagon Loses War to Zap Airborne Laser From Budget
• Very high dosage fluphenazine for nonchronic treatment-refractory patients. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
• The largest siderostat in the world is the Paris 50-inch refractor, which formed the chief attraction of the Palais d'Optique at the Exhibition of 1900. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
• At another time it might have been a pretty journey, the hills just turning the colors of pumpkin and hay and pomegranate and the skies depthless and clear, but now everywhere one looked most of the trees had been felled for fuel and there was only a hazy, oppressive brightness refracted from the shorn hillsides. Excerpt: The Surrendered by Chang-rae Lee
• K. Sakthivel of the Astronomy Club said that the group of observers used a 60 mm refractor to project the image of the sun upon a flat surface where it could be viewed comfortably.
• Each of us observes the world and the people with whom we come in contact through a lens refracted by our own upbringing, experiences and prejudices.
• Abbe Rochon, who discovered the double refracting power in some of the natural crystals, had lately made a telescope with the metal called platina, which, while it is as susceptible of as perfect a polish as the metal heretofore used for the specula of telescopes, is insusceptible of rust, as gold and silver are. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1