Definition of "refracting" [re•fract•ing]

• Present participle of refract. (verb)

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• "Both these features are altered when the light is exposed to a transparent medium of prismatic shape - that is, to an optically resistant medium so shaped that the length of the light's passage through it changes from one side of the beam to the other, being least at the so-called refracting edge of the prism, greatest at the base opposite to that."
• "This much glow could easily burn out your retinas, so find some kind of refracting way to view this post."
• "I remember standing on the bridge in my first years in this crazy business, hoping to find answers in the ripples of the water, asking the refracting light what I should do, and listening to the wind whisper secrets to me."