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| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | Refraction resulting when a ray of radiant energy passes obliquely through an atmosphere.It may be called "astronomical refraction" if the ray enters the atmosphere from outer space, or "terrestrial refraction" if it emanates from a point on or near the surface of the earth. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: ATMOSPHERIC REFRACTION |
| English words defined with "ATMOSPHERIC REFRACTION": mirage. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ATMOSPHERIC REFRACTION": Doppler error ♦ effective radius of the earth ♦ radio horizon ♦ subrefraction ♦ tangential wavepath. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
atmospheric refraction | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 54 4D 4F 53 50 48 45 52 49 43 52 45 46 52 41 43 54 49 4F 4E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01010100 01001101 01001111 01010011 01010000 01001000 01000101 01010010 01001001 01000011 00100000 01010010 01000101 01000110 01010010 01000001 01000011 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A T M O S P H E R I C   R E F R A C T I O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0054 004D 004F 0053 0050 0048 0045 0052 0049 0043 0052 0045 0046 0052 0041 0043 0054 0049 004F 004E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3554474953504239524337252394052353754434948 |
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