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Definition of Reflection

1. Noun. A calm, lengthy, intent consideration.

2. Noun. The phenomenon of a propagating wave (light or sound) being thrown back from a surface.

3. Noun. Expression without words. "The pulse is a reflection of the heart's condition"

4. Noun. A likeness in which left and right are reversed.

5. Noun. The image of something as reflected by a mirror (or other reflective material). "He studied his reflection in the mirror"

6. Noun. (mathematics) a transformation in which the direction of one axis is reversed.

7. Noun. A remark expressing careful consideration.

8. Noun. The ability to reflect beams or rays.

Definition of Reflection

1. n. The act of reflecting, or turning or sending back, or the state of being reflected.

Definition of Reflection

1. Noun. The act of reflecting or the state of being reflected. ¹

2. Noun. The property of a propagated wave being thrown back from a surface (such as a mirror). ¹

3. Noun. Something, such as an image, that is reflected. ¹

4. Noun. Careful thought or consideration. ¹

5. Noun. An implied criticism. ¹

6. Noun. (computing) The process or mechanism of determining the capabilities of an object at run-time. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reflection

1. flection [n -S] - See also: flection

Medical Definition of Reflection

1. 1. The act of reflecting, or turning or sending back, or the state of being reflected. Specifically: The return of rays, beams, sound, or the like, from a surface. See Angle of reflection, below. "The eye sees not itself, But by reflection, by some other things." (Shak) The reverting of the mind to that which has already occupied it; continued consideration; meditation; contemplation; hence, also, that operation or power of the mind by which it is conscious of its own acts or states; the capacity for judging rationally, especially in view of a moral rule or standard. "By reflection, . . . I would be understood to mean, that notice which the mind takes of its own operations, and the manner of them, by reason whereof there come to be ideas of these operations in the understanding." (Locke) "This delight grows and improves under thought and reflection." (South) 2. Shining; brightness, as of the sun. 3. That which is produced by reflection. Specifically: An image given back from a reflecting surface; a reflected counterpart. "As the sun water we can bear, yet not the sun, but his reflection, there." (Dryden) A part reflected, or turned back, at an angle; as, the reflection of a membrane. Result of meditation; thought or opinion after attentive consideration or contemplation; especially, thoughts suggested by truth. "Job's reflections on his once flourishing estate did at the same time afflict and encourage him." (Atterbury) 4. Censure; reproach cast. "He died; and oh! may no reflection shed Its poisonous venom on the royal dead." (Prior) 5. The transference of an excitement from one nerve fibre to another by means of the nerve cells, as in reflex action. See Reflex action, under Reflex. Angle of reflection, the angle which anything, as a ray of light, on leaving a reflecting surface, makes with the perpendicular to the surface. Angle of total reflection. Same as Critical angle, under Critical. Synonym: Meditation, contemplation, rumination, cogitation, consideration, musing, thinking. Origin: Written also reflexion. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reflection

reflected colours reflected light reflected ray reflectent reflecter reflectible reflectin reflecting microscope reflecting retinoscope reflecting telescope

reflecting telescopes reflectingly reflectings reflection (current term) reflection X-ray microscopy reflection coefficient reflection factor reflection nebula reflection nebulae reflection nebulas

reflectional reflectionally reflectionless reflections reflective reflective power reflectively reflectiveness

Literary usage of Reflection

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"Experiments in Dispersed reflection Get a small piece of black velvet or cloth and take it to a dark room where the heliostat will give us a slender beam of ..."

2. An essay concerning human understanding by John Locke (1823)
"OF SIMPLE IDEAS OF reflection. §. 1. Simple ideas are the operations of the mind about its other ideas.—The mind receiving the ideas, mentioned in the ..."

3. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1849)
"The idea of perception, and idea of willing, we have from reflection. ... Of some of the modes of these simple ideas of reflection, such as are remembrance, ..."

4. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (1899)
"Many judgments arc admitted to be true from mere habit or inclination; but, because reflection neither precedes nor follows, it is held to be a judgment ..."

5. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (1899)
"Many judgments are admitted to be true from mere habit or inclination; but, because reflection neither precedes nor follows, it is held to be a judgment ..."

6. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David Hume (1890)
"T3y insisting on Locke's account of the relation between (4) In rathe ideas of sensation and those of reflection we might be P,ard to, ..."

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