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reflection

noun
/ɹɪˈflɛkʃən/

Etymology

From Middle English refleccion, refleccioun, refleccioune, reflection, from Middle French reflection, reflexion, and its source Late Latin reflexiō, from the participle stem of reflectō. The current spelling is influenced by reflect. Equivalent to reflect + -ion.

  1. derived from reflexiō
  2. derived from reflection,reflexion
  3. inherited from refleccion,refleccioun,refleccioune,reflection

Definitions

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

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

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

    • The dog barked at his own reflection in the mirror.
    • A body of black that carried no reflection.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. Careful thought or consideration.

      • After careful reflection, I have decided not to vote for that proposition.
      • But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections.

    2. A representative manifestation or outcome of a condition, trend or trait.

      • Our recent results are a reflection of the progress we've made as a team.
      • Zuckerberg said last month that the name change was a reflection of how much Facebook had evolved.

    3. The process or mechanism of determining the capabilities of an object at run-time.

      • DynamicMBeanFacade uses Java's reflection API to introspect the managed resource and discover data type information for attributes.

    4. The folding of a part

      The folding of a part; a fold.

The neighborhood

Derived

angle of reflection, antireflection, complete internal reflection, Fresnel reflection, glide reflection, hyporeflection, interreflection, metareflection, misreflection, multireflection, no-reflection, oblique reflection, on reflection, Phong reflection, pseudoreflection, reflectional, reflection-in-action, reflectionism, reflectionless, reflection-like, reflection mapping, reflection nebula, reflection-on-action, retroreflection, rotoreflection, self-reflection, superreflection, total internal reflection, transflection, upon reflection

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at reflection. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at reflection. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at reflection

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA