Crossword clues for reflex
reflex
- Knee jerk, e.g
- Sudden reaction
- Automatic, as a reaction
- Automatic reaction
- Automatic (action)
- Type of scanners
- Thoughtless action?
- Something tested with a little hammer
- Physiological reaction
- Involuntary, as a reaction
- Involuntary move
- Flinching, typically
- Automatic, unplanned response
- Automatic action
- Kind of camera
- It's automatic
- Involuntary action
- Knee jerk, e.g.
- An automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus
- Automatic response
- Involuntary response
- Response to a stimulus
- Knee-jerk reaction about electric cable
- Retro Fairy King embraces without thinking
- Unconscious response
- Involuntary movement
- Knee jerk, for one
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reflex \Re*flex"\ (r?*fl?ks"), v. t. [L. reflexus, p. p. of reflectere. See Reflect.]
To reflect. [Obs.]
--Shak.To bend back; to turn back.
--J. Gregory.
Reflex \Re"flex\ (r?"fl?ks; formerly r?*fl?ks"), n. [L. reflexus a bending back. See Reflect.]
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Reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
Yon gray is not the morning's eye, 'Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow.
--Shak.On the depths of death there swims The reflex of a human face.
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(Physiol.) An involuntary movement produced by reflex action.
Patellar reflex. See Knee jerk, under Knee.
Reflex \Re"flex\ (r?"fl?ks), a. [L. reflexus, p. p. of reflectere: cf. F. r['e]flexe. See Reflect.]
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Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive; introspective.
The reflex act of the soul, or the turning of the intellectual eye inward upon its own actions.
--Sir M. Hale. Produced in reaction, in resistance, or in return.
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(Physiol.) Of, pertaining to, or produced by, stimulus or excitation without the necessary intervention of consciousness.
Reflex action (Physiol.), any action performed involuntarily in consequence of an impulse or impression transmitted along afferent nerves to a nerve center, from which it is reflected to an efferent nerve, and so calls into action certain muscles, organs, or cells.
Reflex nerve (Physiol.), an excito-motory nerve. See Exito-motory.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1500, "reflection of light," from verb reflex meaning "refract, deflect" (late 14c.), from Late Latin reflexus "a bending back," noun use of past participle of reflectere (see reflection). Meaning "involuntary nerve stimulation" first recorded 1877, from reflex action (1833).
Wiktionary
1 bent, turned back or reflected. 2 Produced automatically by a stimulus. 3 (context geometry of an angle English) Having greater than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees. 4 (context photography English) Of a camera or camera mechanism, using a mirror to reflect the image onto a ground-glass viewfinder, allowing the photographer to see it up to the moment of exposure. n. An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing. v
1 to bend, turn back or reflect 2 to respond to a stimulus
WordNet
n. an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus [syn: instinctive reflex, innate reflex, inborn reflex, unconditioned reflex, physiological reaction]
Wikipedia
Reflex is the 2004 sequel to the 1992 novel Jumper by Steven Gould.
Reflex is a Russian girl group consisting of two members: Irene Nelson (Lead Vocals), Alyona Torganova (Vocals). The group was created in 1999 and the first single called "Dalni svet" (Distant Light) conquered the hit parade of Europe Plus radio station. All Reflex's music is composed by Viacheslav Tyurin.
A reflex is an involuntary movement in response to a stimulus.
Reflex also may refer to:
Reflex is a Czech weekly magazine focusing on political, social and cultural topics. It was founded in 1990 and is currently owned by company Czech News Center. It is one of the Czech Republic's most controversial and widely read social-political magazines; its print circulation of 60,000 copies (as of January, 2010) reaches approximately 270,000 readers. Polls conducted by the Czech Publishers Association (Unie vydavatelů) in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 placed Reflex first in its category.
ReFLEX is a wireless protocol developed by Motorola, used for two-way paging, messaging, and low-bandwidth data. It is based on the FLEX one-way paging protocol, adding capabilities for multiple forward channels, multiple return channels, and roaming. It originally came in two variants, ReFLEX25 and ReFLEX50. ReFLEX50 was originally developed to support a messaging service launched by MTEL in the mid 1990s, while ReFLEX25 was developed several years later to provide an upgrade path for traditional one-way paging carriers. The 50 and 25 signified 50 KHz and 25KHz channel spacing, although in reality both variants supported flexible channel configurations. The two variants were unified into a single protocol with version 2.7, which was released simply as ReFLEX 2.7. Devices compliant with ReFLEX 2.7 are backwards compatible with both ReFLEX25 and ReFLEX50 networks, with several new features to improve roaming, performance, and interoperability between different networks. ReFLEX systems support forward channel speeds of 1600, 3200, and 6400 bits per second, and return channel speeds of 800, 1600, 6400, and 9600 bits per second. Like FLEX, ReFLEX is synchronous, based on 1.875 second frames and 4-level FSK modulation.
The Motorola PageWriter released in 1996 was one of the first devices to use the ReFLEX network protocol. Although ReFLEX now has limited viability in the commercial market, it is finding new uses in Automatic Meter Reading, public safety, and low cost/bandwidth M2M applications.
Reflex is a BBC television game show hosted by Shane Richie and aired from 11 January to 29 March 2014 on BBC One.
Reflex was a 3D building design software application developed in the mid 1980s and - along with it predecessor Sonata - is now regarded as a forerunner to today's building information modelling applications.
Usage examples of "reflex".
Acting on a trained reflex he had had drummed into him throughout his apprenticeship, he flung up a defensive shield without thinking, a telekinetic barrier against anything solid that might come his way.
I have natural reflexes and I test off the scale on autonomic visualization.
What Tick had meant when he talked about his neural reflexes and superb autonomic termperospatial visualization.
Gyllir rocked with it, Bern gasped with the force, pulled the horse back to his right in the sea, by reflex, more than anything.
Hands pull with senile reflex for newsies to protect against the autumn cold, but the newsies are no longer there, the FreeVee has killed the last of them.
In a case studied by Fevrier the exploration of a lateral pharyngeal fistula produced by the introduction of the sound violent reflex phenomena, such as pallor of the face and irregular, violent beating of the heart.
Thorin recoiled a step and in a lightning reflex movement, drew his pistolet from its holster.
Babinski contraction of all five digits of right foot, no plantar reflex.
By pressing where Angelique pressed, by working the genital reflex zone on the plantar side of the heel, she had the man moaning, facedown in his pillow.
Then the pressoreceptor reflex, a sympathetic reflex triggered by diminished arterial pressure, cut in, and in89 90LarrV Niven and Steven Barnes creased the efficacy of the unaffected heart muscle, giving Stonecypher respite from the immediate agony.
As a reflex the Killer swung his pulser, clubbing Vayim over the head rather than firing at him in such an enclosed space.
Then, the reflex of that Fount Spied below, will Reason mount Lordly and a quenchless force, Lighting Pain to its mad source, Scaring Fear till Fear escapes, Shot through all its phantom shapes.
Lara Raith had the reflexes that were depressingly common in all of those vampire types, and she darted out of the way of the flames.
For, simply to know thee,--to listen to thy heaven-inspired utterance, might bring the most renownless student some reflex of thine honor!
Whether this refusal results from absorption in other employment or from some superstitious belief, it is a violation of the will of our Maker, and the consequent suffering and dissolution are the retributive hell or reflex signals, painfully pointing out our duty.