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reflection
  1. The act of reflecting or the state of being reflected.
  2. The property of a propagated wave being thrown back from a surface (such as a mirror).
  3. Something, such as an image, that is reflected.
  4. Careful thought or consideration.
  5. An implied criticism.
  6. (computing) The process or mechanism of determining the capabilities of an object at run-time.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “The queen admired her reflection in the mirror, believing she was the fairest of them all.”
      “In addition to their reflection of light, the pigments also have the ability to absorb certain wavelengths.”
      “After some reflection, I realized that things weren't nearly as bad as they seemed.”
reflector
  1. Something which reflects heat, light or sound, especially something having a reflecting surface.
  2. A reflecting telescope.
  3. A small, often red, reflecting disk on the rear of a vehicle or bicycle that reflects the headlights of other vehicles.
  4. A safety reflector.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “The victim waved a sun reflector in an effort to guide emergency crews through the fast-moving current.”
      “Off the Armorican margin, the S reflector has no direct seismic relationship with the location of crustal thinning.”
      “The clicks are beamed forward, with the oily melon serving as an acoustic lens and the bony forehead as a reflector.”
reflectin
  1. (biochemistry) A protein, found in certain squids, that self-organizes into a film of regularly spaced stripes, the separation of which functions as a tunable diffraction grating to produce a range of reflective colours in the animal's skin
reflectoporn
  1. (slang) Exhibitionism of a sexual nature in which a person takes a photograph of a reflective object, such as a kettle or cutlery, so that their naked image appears in the reflection, and posts the pictures on the Internet, for example when listing the object for sale.
reflectance
  1. (physics) The ratio of the flux reflected to that incident on a surface.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The leading edge of the incoming media is optically scanned using a blue-violet light to obtain both diffuse and specular reflectance values.”
      “Contrast in spectral reflectance between the corona and corolla was evident only in Pachycarpus natalensis and Asclepias cucullata.”
      “To quantitatively ascertain the isotropy of the collagen gels imaged with confocal reflectance microscopy, several approaches are used.”
reflectometer
  1. An instrument used to measure the reflectance of a surface.
  2. Examples:
    1. “A device called a reflectometer is used to measure the degree of whiteness in processed tuber samples destined to become chips.”
      “The measurements presented in FigureĀ 4 do not take into account the light scattered outside the reflectometer capture radius.”
      “He will also be involved in the development of neutron reflectometry techniques here at Chalk River, in preparation for the new reflectometer.”
reflectability
  1. The quality of being reflectable; able to be reflected.
reflectibility
  1. Quality of being reflectible; ability to be reflected.
reflectometry
  1. (physics) The science of the design and use of reflectometers.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The purpose of neutron reflectometry is to reveal the microstructure of materials in thin film geometries.”
      “The basic system comes with time domain reflectometry and digital arc reflection modes as standard.”
      “He will also be involved in the development of neutron reflectometry techniques here at Chalk River, in preparation for the new reflectometer.”
reflexibility
  1. The quality or capability of being reflexible.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The side panel has some structures where laser welding is not acceptable such as 4 layers, high reflexibility and so on.”
reflectiveness
  1. The state or property of being reflective.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The artist's painting captured the serene reflectiveness of the sunset, with its contemplative hues blending seamlessly into one another.”
      “The preference of auditory learning indicates your basic reflectiveness coupled with a tendency to process information sequentially.”
      “An expression of awe and reflectiveness veiled the sharpness of his features.”
reflexity
  1. The state or condition of being reflected.
reflectancy
  1. Alternative form of reflectance
reflectivity
  1. The quality of being reflective.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “For angles exceeding the critical angle, the refracted waves are evanescent and the reflectivity is very close to unity.”
      “Unit 3B, observed in the western Armorican transitional zone, is a seismic unit with low reflectivity.”
      “This application involves measuring the reflectivity of monochromatic x-rays as a function of the incident angle.”
reflexion
  1. Dated spelling of reflection.
  2. Examples:
    1. “I thought that it was better to have time for reflexion than extra material.”
      “The writing itself does not resort to much critical reflexion or afterthought.”
      “Further reflexion and experiment showed me my subject strangled in that extreme of rigour.”
reflectionlessness
  1. Absence of a reflection.
reflecting
reflectivenesses
reflectometers
  1. plural of reflectometer
reflectometries
  1. plural of reflectometry
reflexibilities
  1. plural of reflexibility
reflectivities
reflectances
  1. plural of reflectance
reflectancies
  1. plural of reflectancy
reflectings
reflections
  1. plural of reflection
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The westerly dipping reflections show that the dune has migrated from east to west and is accreting on its western side.”
      “The smell of the food they were eating and a sense of hunger recalled him from these reflections.”
      “The man held up his warrant card, even though the laser reflections from shiny clear plastic made it quite unreadable.”
reflectins
  1. plural of reflectin
reflectors
  1. plural of reflector
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Subhorizontal seismic reflectors interpreted as sills are present over a huge region in the basement underlying the Western Canada Basin.”
      “A surface acoustic wave device includes interdigital transducer electrode and reflectors disposed on a piezoelectric substrate.”
      “This puts it in the same category as pedal reflectors, which are required when a bike is sold.”
reflexions
  1. plural of reflexion
  2. Examples:
    1. “They are prefaced by some general reflexions on the mischiefs occasioned by the sacra fames auri.”
      “By widening the field to include all forms of film experimentation, by tracing a historical line from Marey to today, this book proposes new reflexions.”
      “Such were the reflexions of a theoretic Teuton who now walked for the most part amid the ashes of his prejudices.”
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