Refractor is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 289 anagrams from letters in refractor (aceforrrt).
First recorded in 1630-40; refract + -or2
With 3-inch refractor in the Punjab I found it “full scarlet.”
The need for so huge a lens arises out of the optical principles of a refractor.
In America the reflector has always kept at least even pace with the refractor.
Thus the refractor and the reflector differ chiefly in their manner of gathering light.
Of course; that is a refractor, and this is going to be a reflector.
The reflecting telescope was invented; the recognized possibility of achromatism led to an improvement in the refractor.
It is not easy to say which type of telescope, the refractor or the reflector, is the more famous.
A refractor is also more convenient to handle than is a reflector.
The same eyepieces will serve for either the reflector or the refractor.
In its general plan it is like that of the 36-inch refractor.
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