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reflexion
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reflection \Re*flec"tion\ (r?*fl?k"sh?n), n. [L. reflexio: cf. F. r['e]flexion. See Riflect .] [Written also reflexion .] The act of reflecting, or turning or sending back, or the state of being reflected. Specifically: The return of rays, beams, sound, ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of reflection English)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the phenomenon of a propagating wave (light or sound) being thrown back from a surface [syn: reflection ] expression without words; "tears are an expression of grief"; "the pulse is a reflection of the heart's condition" [syn: expression , manifestation ...
Usage examples of reflexion.
All these reflexions coursed themselves through his brain, while, with the zeal of a partizan, and the fervour of one wedded to the justice of his cause, he revolved every probable change of time and fortune.
In order to rouse his artist friends and to stimulate their reflexions, he liked to indulge in paradoxes, as when he asserted that blue was not a colour at all.
Goethe did not judge man from artificially devised experiments, but the latter from man, quite simple reflexions led him to the following view of the presence of the contrasting colour in the coloured after-images.
To learn to recognize rhythmic events in nature and man as reflexions of corresponding planetary rhythms is one of the tasks which future scientific research has to tackle.
Her reflexions indeed at this moment thickened apace, and one of them made her sure that her governess had conversations, private, earnest and not infrequent, with her denounced stepfather.
These reflexions would indicate that Count Vogelstein read his volume of Tauchnitz rather interruptedly.
Such were the reflexions of a theoretic Teuton who now walked for the most part amid the ashes of his prejudices.
Conscious innocence ennobled all her reflexions, and gave to her sentiments and manner of thinking, I know not what of celestial and divine.
Then after a pause for reflexion, 'We might try that as a duetto, improvising .
Then after a pause for reflexion, 'We might try that as a duetto, improvising.
A mile and a half of steady pacing followed these reflexions about home, and then two distinct thoughts arose: 'I must ask Wilkins whether he will act as third lieutenant until we reach Callao: they say he was a master's mate in Agamemnon.
Just as a musical instrument, if it is to be a perfect means of bringing forth music, must bear in its build the very laws of music, so must the body of the universe, as the instrument on which the harmonies of the spheres play their spiritual music, bear in its proportions a reflexion of these harmonies.