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Capable of being broken; brittle; fragile; easily broken.

Not capable of being broken or separated into parts; as, infrangible atoms. [He] link'd their fetlocks with a golden band Infrangible. Pope.

The state or quality of being infrangible; infrangibility.

Not refrangible; that can not be refracted in passing from one medium to another. -- Ir`re*fran"gi*ble*ness, n.

Capable of being refracted, or turned out of a direct course, in passing from one medium to another, as rays of light. -- Re*fran"gi*ble*ness, n.

Infrangible. [Obs.] "Impassible and unfrangible." Jer. Taylor.

The state or quality of being frangible. Fox.

Lying outside the visible spectrum at its red end; -- said of rays less refrangible than the extreme red rays.

The quality or state of being infrangible; infrangibleness.

The quality or state of being irrefrangible; irrefrangibleness.

e of being reflected, or thrown back. The light of the sun consists of rays differently refrangible and reflexible. Cheyne.

The quality of being refrangible.

ted beyond or below the red rays; as, the ultrated rays of the spectrum, which are less refrangible than the red.

Lying outside the visible spectrum at its violet end; -- said of rays more refrangible than the extreme violet rays of the spectrum.

The color of a violet, or that part of the spectrum farthest from red. It is the most refrangible part of the spectrum.