"refractile" meaning in English

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      "form": "more refractile",
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      "form": "most refractile",
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1884, Various, Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884:",
          "text": "As the colony increases, the granular character becomes more marked, until it seems to be made up of highly refractile granules, like a mass of particles of glass.",
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          "ref": "1913, John William Henry Eyre, The Elements of Bacteriological Technique:",
          "text": "Stained bacilli, when examined with the polarising microscope, often show a doubly refractile cell wall (e. g., B. tuberculosis and B. anthracis).",
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          "ref": "1997 July 11, Bin Wang, Adam Kuspa, “Dictyostelium Development in the Absence of cAMP”, in Science, volume 277, number 5323, →DOI, pages 251–254:",
          "text": "The number of refractile, ovoid spores was determined by phase-contrast microscopy using a hemocytometer.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 August 27, H. Roger Segelken, “Thomas H. Weller, Whose Work on Tissue Led to Nobel Prize, Is Dead at 93”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "He watched daily through the microscope for characteristic signs of viral infection, and eventually saw what he later described as a “peculiar rounding of scattered cells with refractile bodies in the cytoplasm and nucleus.”",
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        "Able to refract, refractive"
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          "ref": "1884, Various, Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884:",
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        },
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          "ref": "1913, John William Henry Eyre, The Elements of Bacteriological Technique:",
          "text": "Stained bacilli, when examined with the polarising microscope, often show a doubly refractile cell wall (e. g., B. tuberculosis and B. anthracis).",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1997 July 11, Bin Wang, Adam Kuspa, “Dictyostelium Development in the Absence of cAMP”, in Science, volume 277, number 5323, →DOI, pages 251–254:",
          "text": "The number of refractile, ovoid spores was determined by phase-contrast microscopy using a hemocytometer.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2008 August 27, H. Roger Segelken, “Thomas H. Weller, Whose Work on Tissue Led to Nobel Prize, Is Dead at 93”, in New York Times:",
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