Your browser does not seem to support JavaScript. As a result, your viewing experience will be diminished, and you have been placed in read-only mode.
Please download a browser that supports JavaScript, or enable it if it's disabled (i.e. NoScript).
The property possessed by heat of being composed, like light,of rays of different degrees of refrangibility, which are unequal inrate or degree of transmission through diathermic substances.
Share your knowledge with the community
Browse our collection of 300,000+ community-written definitions
