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Snell's law noun phr. L19.
[from Willebrord Van Roijen Snell (1591-1626), Dutch astronomer and mathematician.]
Optics. The law which states that for a ray of light passing from one uniform medium to another the sines of the angles of incidence and refraction are always in the same ratio.