Appearance
Use device theme  
Dark theme
Light theme

What is the noun for refractoriness?

What's the noun for refractoriness? Here's the word you're looking for.

refraction
  1. (physics) The turning or bending of any wave, such as a light or sound wave, when it passes from one medium into another of different optical density.
  2. (metallurgy) The degree to which a metal or compound can withstand heat
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The refraction of light as it passes through a prism creates a beautiful display of colors.”
      “It was a beautifully worked out theory and explained most of the observed phenomena of light such as reflection, refraction, diffraction etc.”
      “Because of the effect of wave refraction, the plan shape of crenulated coasts can attain an equilibrium state.”
refractory
  1. A material or piece of material, such as a brick, that has a very high melting point.
refringence
refringency
  1. The power of a substance to refract a ray.
refractiveness
  1. The quality or condition of being refractive.
refractivity
  1. The quality or degree of being refractive.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Steam treatment of tissue sections in citrate buffer at pH 6.0 did not increase the polariscopic refractivity of the organism.”
      “Glasses can now be made differing considerably both in refractivity and dispersive power.”
      “In this case small temperature changes alter the refractivity of the liquid without appreciably affecting the quartz.”
refrangibility
  1. The quality of being refrangible.
  2. Examples:
    1. “This is an illustration of what is called the aberration of refrangibility.”
      “This confirmed his previous conclusion that the rays increase in refrangibility from red to violet.”
      “Here, by the interposition of the platinum foil, the refrangibility of the ultra-red rays is so exalted as to render them visible.”
refrangibleness
  1. The quality of being refrangible.
refractility
  1. The quality of being refractile.
refractoriness
  1. The quality of being refractory.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Patients in the study had already demonstrated refractoriness to physical therapy.”
      “I considered them, therefore, as beings influenced by the most deplorable obduracy and refractoriness of spirit.”
      “Felodipine in therapeutic doses has no effect on conduction in the conducting system of the heart and no effect on the A-V nodal refractoriness.”
refrangibilities
  1. plural of refrangibility
refractilities
  1. plural of refractility
refractivities
  1. plural of refractivity
refringences
  1. plural of refringence
refringencies
  1. plural of refringency
refractions
  1. plural of refraction
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Taken as a whole, the project creates a progression of refractions, a series of cleavages that structure the contraction of the landscape.”
      “The walls around flicker with refractions from the gem-encrusted trove that is the Iranian Crown Jewels.”
      “The intrinsic limitation of plain scanline rendering, however, is that there are no reflections or refractions.”
refractories
  1. plural of refractory
Find more words!
Use * for blank tiles (max 2) Advanced Search Advanced Search
Use * for blank spaces Advanced Search
Advanced Word Finder

See Also

Nearby Words
14-letter Words Starting With
Find Nouns
go
Word Tools Finders & Helpers Apps More Synonyms
Copyright WordHippo © 2024