reflex

Etymology
From, past participle of , equivalent to. Photography sense is from noun sense meaning “reflection”. Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.
 * 2) * 1970,, trans. Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox, :
 * For a while, I shall have to make a conscious effort to smile, nod, stand and perform the thousands of little gestures which constitute life on Earth, and then those gestures will become reflexes again.
 * 1)  The descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter language.
 * 2)  The ancestor word corresponding to a descendant.
 * 3) The descendant of anything from an earlier time, such as a cultural myth.
 * 4)  Reflection or an image produced by reflection. The light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
 * 1)  The ancestor word corresponding to a descendant.
 * 2) The descendant of anything from an earlier time, such as a cultural myth.
 * 3)  Reflection or an image produced by reflection. The light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
 * 1) The descendant of anything from an earlier time, such as a cultural myth.
 * 2)  Reflection or an image produced by reflection. The light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
 * 1)  Reflection or an image produced by reflection. The light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.

Translations

 * Arabic: مُنْعَكَس
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Crimean Tatar: refleks
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: reflekso
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hindi: प्रतिवर्त क्रिया
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: рефлекс
 * Korean:
 * Maori: kahuki
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Slovene: refleks
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: balikusa
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Armenian:
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * German: Kontinuante, Fortsetzer
 * Italian: ,
 * Spanish:, continuador

Adjective

 * 1) Bent, turned back or reflected.
 * 2) Produced automatically by a stimulus.
 * 3)  Having greater than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees.
 * 4) * 1958, Howard Fehr, “On Teaching Dihedral Angle and Steradian” in The Mathematics Teacher, v 51, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, page 275:
 * If the reflex region is the interior of the angle, the dihedral angle is reflex.
 * 1) * 2004, Ana Paula Tomás and António Leslie Bajuelos, “Quadratic-Time Linear-Space Algorithms Generating Orthogonal Polygons with a Given Number of Vertices”, in Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2004 Proceedings, part 3, Springer, page 117:
 * P denotes a polygon and r the number of reflex vertices.
 * 1)  Illuminated by light reflected from another part of the same picture.
 * 1) * 2004, Ana Paula Tomás and António Leslie Bajuelos, “Quadratic-Time Linear-Space Algorithms Generating Orthogonal Polygons with a Given Number of Vertices”, in Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2004 Proceedings, part 3, Springer, page 117:
 * P denotes a polygon and r the number of reflex vertices.
 * 1)  Illuminated by light reflected from another part of the same picture.
 * P denotes a polygon and r the number of reflex vertices.
 * 1)  Illuminated by light reflected from another part of the same picture.

Translations

 * Maori: rāwaho
 * Tagalog: pabalik


 * Bulgarian: огледален
 * Hungarian:

Verb

 * 1)  To bend back or turn back over itself.
 * 2)  To reflect (light, sight, etc.).
 * 3)  To reflect or mirror (an object), to show the image of.
 * 4)  To cast (beams of light) on something.
 * 5) To respond to a stimulus.
 * 1) To respond to a stimulus.

Etymology
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Adjective

 * 1) reflected
 * 2)  reflexed
 * 3)  reflexive
 * 1)  reflexed
 * 2)  reflexive
 * 1)  reflexive

Noun

 * 1) reflection something that is reflected
 * 2)  an automatic response to a simple stimulus
 * 1)  an automatic response to a simple stimulus

Related terms

 * See

Etymology
Borrowed from, from.

Noun

 * 1)  automatic response by an organism

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1)  an automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing
 * 2)  reflection

Etymology
, from.

Etymology
From, first attested 1811.

Noun

 * a, a (quick and spontaneous) reaction
 * 1) a reflector (tag, strip or band; carried by pedestrians and bicyclists to be visible from automobiles)
 * 2) a  (reflection)