angle of refraction

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   the angle between a refracted ray and a line perpendicular to the surface between the two media at the point of refraction

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Questions about angle of refraction

What does angle of refraction mean?

angle of refraction means "the angle between a refracted ray and a line perpendicular to the surface between the two media at the point of refraction".

Is angle of refraction a common word?

angle of refraction is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.