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The state or quality of being frangible. Fox.

The quality or state of being infrangible; infrangibleness.

The quality or state of being irrefrangible; irrefrangibleness.

The quality of being refrangible.

bscure radiant heat info kight; the transmutation of rays of heat into others of higher refrangibility. Tyndall.

ht incident upon it. The light emitted by fluorescent substances is in general of lower refrangibility than the incident light. Stockes.

The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility. Bacon.

The state or quality of being infrangible; infrangibility.

a cell or a protozoan, distinguished from the surrounding protoplasm by a difference in refrangibility and in behavior towards chemical reagents. It is more or less protoplasmic, and consists of a clear fluid (achromatin) through which extends a network of fibers (chromatin) in which may be suspended a second rounded b…

to their colors; to sort wool or thread according to its fineness. Rays which differ in refrangibility may be parted and sorted from one another. Sir I. Newton.

endure the application of force without breaking or yielding; -- in this sense opposed to frangibility; as, the strength of a bone, of a beam, of a wall, a rope, and the like. "The brittle strength of bones." Milton.

operty possessed by heat of being composed, like light, of rays of different degrees of refrangibility, which are unequal in rate or degree of transmission through diathermic substances.