Crossword clues for reflector
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reflector \Re*flect"or\ (-[~e]r), n. [Cf. F. r['e]flecteur.]
One who, or that which, reflects.
--Boyle.-
(Physics)
Something having a polished surface for reflecting light or heat, as a mirror, a speculum, etc.
A reflecting telescope.
A device for reflecting sound.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also reflecter, 1660s, agent noun in Latin form from reflect. As an attachment to a vehicle, etc., from 1909. As a type of telescope, 1767.
Wiktionary
n. Something which reflects heat, light or sound, especially something having a reflecting surface.
WordNet
n. device that reflects radiation
optical telescope consisting of a large concave mirror that produces an image that is magnified by the eyepiece; "Isaac Newton invented the reflecting telescope in 1668" [syn: reflecting telescope]
Wikipedia
Reflector may refer to:
__NOTOC__ Reflector is the sixth studio album by the California soft rock group Pablo Cruise. The album charted slightly higher than its immediate predecessor, but still managed only to reach #34 in the US. Two singles were released from the album; " Cool Love" and " Slip Away", reaching #13 and #75 respectively in the US. Produced by established and well-known R&B producer Tom Dowd, fans remarked that the album had a different feel to it.
Two changes in members were made before the album was released. After just two albums, bassist and vocalist Bruce Day was replaced by John Pierce. Also, an additional guitarist, Angelo Rossi, was added.
An antenna reflector is a device that reflects electromagnetic waves. Antenna reflectors can exist as a standalone device for redirecting radio frequency (RF) energy, or can be integrated as part of an antenna assembly.
Reflector is the debut album by Australian band Killing Heidi, released in 2000 by Roadshow Music. It won the 2000 ARIA Music Award for Best Rock Album.
A reflector, in cryptology, is a component of some rotor cipher machines, such as the Enigma machine, that sends electrical impulses that have reached it from the machine's rotors, back in reverse order through those rotors. The reflector simplified using the same machine setup for encryption and decryption, but it creates a weakness in the encryption: with a reflector the encrypted version of a given letter can never be that letter itself. That limitation aided World War II code breakers in cracking Enigma encryption. The comparable WW II U.S. cipher machine, SIGABA, did not include a reflector.
[[Image:Enigma-action.svg|thumb|250px|The scrambling action of the Enigma rotors shown for two consecutive letters — current is passed into set of rotors, around the reflector, and back out through the rotors again.
Note: The greyed-out lines represent other possible circuits within each rotor, which are hard-wired to contacts on each rotor.
Letter A encrypts differently with consecutive key presses, first to G, and then to C. This is because the right hand rotor has stepped, sending the signal on a completely different route.]]
The Reflector is the student newspaper of Mississippi State University, founded in 1884. The newspaper was first published as The Dialective Reflector from 1884 to 1889 before being shortened to The Reflector. It has subsequently published under its current name except for a brief period in 1944-1945 when it was operated by faculty and called Maroon and White during World War II.
In cellular automata such as Conway's Game of Life, a reflector is a pattern that can interact with a spaceship to change its direction of motion, without damage to the reflector pattern. In Life, many oscillators can reflect the glider; there also exist stable reflectors composed of still life patterns that, when they interact with a glider, reflect the glider and return to their stable state.
Reflector is the collective name of three Decepticon characters from the fictional Transformers toy range and associated universe. Their individual names are Viewfinder, Spectro, and Spyglass. They combine into a single alternate form. In some versions of Transformers, such as the "Shattered Glass" storyline, Reflector is one character instead of three.
In photography and cinematography, a reflector is an improvised or specialised reflective surface used to redirect light towards a given subject or scene.
Reflector is a rock band that formed in Beijing in 1997. According to the band's official English language website, Reflector has been featured on CNN and in Newsweek magazine. Reflector lists among its English language musical influences the bands Green Day, NOFX and Lagwagon. In 2000 their song "Scream Club" was featured in the movie Warm Summer Day.
In 2001 Reflector became one of the first of bands (which many in China consider to be "punk") from China to tour the United States; the band performed in seven West Coast cities, including a gig in Sacramento opening for former punk band Anti-Flag.
The band performed at Cui Jian's 2003 Live Vocals festival, and in the 2003 Midi Music Festival.
Reflector (USA-163) is a space debris research microsatellite built in Russia by NII KP for the United States Air Force Research Lab at Kirtland AFB.
There has been some confusion about whether or not the USA-163 designation had actually ever been assigned, which appears to stem from the fact that more than one microsatellite may fly on a given launch vehicle. A single modern launch may indeed result in multiple maneuvering spacecraft reaching different final orbits.
Usage examples of "reflector".
And here, reflector fifty-three, bottom slab eighty-eight, top slab with the hole in it for the bullet, eighty, plus the twelve of beryllium, two thirty-three.
The surface of this modern extravaganza was textured with terraces, glass canopies, solar reflectors and the tracks of its dozens of elevators.
When the ritual of obstructionism to obtain the spectra of the BSOs ensued, Margaret Burbridge, a Briton with over fifty years of observational experience, bypassed the regular channels to make the measurement herself using the relatively small 3-meter reflector telescope on Mount Hamilton outside San Jose in California, and confirmed them to be quasars.
The thick cord of an antiquated electric bowl fire shared a power-point with the thinner cord of a photoflood lamp and reflector on a tall metal stand.
She was a ghost: the sunlight penetrated her like a stained-glass window left to grow filthy in a neglected church, her photophores and reflectors providing brilliant splashes of color.
It struck the backstop not a foot from the goal, but before the eagle-eyed Weems could shift his hand, a Polliwog player was in the air and had caught it with one of his reflectors.
I picked out the stunner by its parabolic reflector, the cameras, and a toroidal coil that had to be part of the floater device.
It struck the backstop not a foot from the goal, but before the eagle-eyed Weems could shift his hand, a Polliwog player was in the air and had caught it with one of his reflectors.
The well in which the eighty-inch Cassegrain reflector had rested was shadowy and cold.
It was darker yet in the outlying streets of cheaply built and dearly rented white frame houses, streets where bright lights and neon were strangers, streets where fluted-saucer reflectors behind incandescent bulbs threw islands of light at sixty-foot intervals in the sea of night.
The lake, like a huge reflector, flashed its light up into the heavens.
Gleaming, massive, gray as hypothermic death, it descended like a steel flower under its five outspread antigrav reflectors.
William Stenton would never have been able to grab the Farside two-hundred-metre reflector for a full quarter of an hour, if a more important programme had not been temporarily derailed by the failure of a fifty cent capacitor.
They had multiple layers of superdense metal shielding, high-power dipole field generators, even a liquid-envelope radiation reflector.
Focused and concentrated by all that superdense metal and liquid reflectors that were there to keep radiation out.