Adjective

(en adjective)

Describing that which refracts.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Able to refract, refractive

*{{quote-book, year=1884, author=Various, title=Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=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. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1913, author=John William Henry Eyre, title=The Elements of Bacteriological Technique, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Stained bacilli, when examined with the polarising microscope, often show a doubly refractile cell wall (e. g., B. tuberculosis and B. anthracis). }}

*{{quote-journal, 1997, date=July 11, Bin Wang & Adam Kuspa, Dictyostelium Development in the Absence of cAMP, Science citation

, passage=The number of refractile , ovoid spores was determined by phase-contrast microscopy using a hemocytometer. }}

* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=August 27, author=H. Roger Segelken, title=Thomas H. Weller, Whose Work on Tissue Led to Nobel Prize, Is Dead at 93, work=New York Times citation

, passage=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.” }}