reflective · Contextualize

Etymology

From reflect + -ive.

Definitions

1
That reflects, or redirects back to the source.
- Mirrors are reflective.
2
Pondering, especially thinking back on the past.
- He always becomes reflective in preparation for the new year.
3
That reveals or shows
That reveals or shows; revealing; indicative of.
- In any event, the incident, and the media attention it attracted, highlights the sensitivity of language politics in Singapore and is reflective of the fact that this sensitivity extends to campus life.
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1. Involving reflection.
2. 5
  By means of reflection.
  - In JIT compilation, the running program is reflectively modified by an embedded compiler, which only uses two reflective operations […]
3. Reciprocal.

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Derived

antireflective, coreflective, echoreflective, hyperreflective, hyporeflective, irreflective, metareflective, nonreflective, overreflective, prereflective, reflectively, reflectiveness, reflectivism, reflectivist, reflectivity, retroreflective, self-reflective, semireflective, thermoreflective, transflective, unreflective

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A definitional loop anchored at reflective. 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.

A definitional loop anchored at reflective. 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 reflective

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