Snell laws of refraction

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(′snel ′löz əv ri′frak·shən)

(optics) When light travels from one medium into another the incident and refracted rays lie in one plane with the normal to the surface; are on opposite sides of the normal; and make angles with the normal whose sines have a constant ratio to one another. Also known as Descartes laws of refraction; laws of refraction.

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