Crossword clues for reflexion
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.]
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The act of reflecting, or turning or sending back, or the state of being reflected. Specifically:
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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.
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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.
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Shining; brightness, as of the sun. [Obs.]
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That which is produced by reflection. Specifically:
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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.
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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.
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Censure; reproach cast.
He died; and oh! may no reflection shed Its poisonous venom on the royal dead.
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(Physiol.) The transference of an excitement from one nerve fiber 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. (Opt.) Same as Critical angle, under Critical.
Syn: Meditation; contemplation; rumination; cogitation; consideration; musing; thinking.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of reflection English)
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, reflection]
a remark expressing careful consideration [syn: observation, reflection]
a calm lengthy intent consideration [syn: contemplation, reflection, rumination, musing, thoughtfulness]
the ability to reflect beams or rays [syn: reflection, reflectivity]
a likeness in which left and right are reversed [syn: mirror image, reflection]
the image of something as reflected by a mirror (or other reflective material); "he studied his reflection in the mirror" [syn: reflection]
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.