reflex
Etimologija
From Late Latin reflexus, past participle of reflectere (“to bend back”). Photography sense is from noun sense meaning “reflection”.
Pronunciation
- (noun, adjective) MFA(ključ): /ˈɹiːflɛks/
Audio (UK) (file) - (verb) MFA(ključ): /ɹɪˈflɛks/
Audio (UK) (file)
Noun
reflex (plural reflexes)
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- An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.
- 1970, Stanisław Lem, trans. Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox, Solaris:
- 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.
- 2012 maj 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport[1]:
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- 1970, Stanisław Lem, trans. Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox, Solaris:
- (linguistics) The descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter language.
- Sinonim: derivative
- Antonim: etymon
- Coordinate term: cognate
- (linguistics, rare) The ancestor word corresponding to a descendant.
- 2011, Ki-Moon Lee and S. Robert Ramsey, A history of the Korean language:
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- The descendant of anything from an earlier time, such as a cultural myth.
- 1898, Christian Brinton, in The Century
- The superstition of the loup-garou, or werewolf, belongs to the folklore of most modern nations, and has its reflex in the story of "Little Red Riding-hood" and others.
- 1898, Christian Brinton, in The Century
- (chiefly photography) Reflection or an image produced by reflection. The light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
- A reflex camera uses a mirror to reflect the image onto a ground-glass viewfinder.
- Šablon:RQ:Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet
- Šablon:RQ:Tennyson In Memoriam
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, published 1993, strana 88:
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Translations
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Adjective
reflex (comparative more reflex, superlative most reflex)
- Bent, turned back or reflected.
- Produced automatically by a stimulus.
- (geometry, of an angle) Having greater than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees.
- 1878, James Maurice Wilson, Elementary Geometry, MacMillan, page 10:
- A polygon is said to be convex when no one of its angles is reflex.
- 1895, David Eugen Smith and Wooster Woodruff Bernan, New Plane and Solid Geometry, page 7:
- An angle less than a right angle is said to be acute; one greater than a right angle but less than a straight angle is said to be obtuse; one greater than a straight angle but less than a perigon is said to be reflex or convex.
- 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.
- 1991, B. Falcidieno et al, “Configurable Representations in Feature-based Modelling” in Eurographics '91: Proceedings, North-Holland, page 145:
- A reflex edge of a polyhedron is an edge where the inner dihedral angle subtended by two incident faces is greater than 180°.
- 2001, Esther M. Arkin et al, “On the Reflexivity of Point Sets”, in Algorithms and data structures: 7th International Workshop, WADS 2001: Proceedings, Springer, page 195:
- We say that an angle is convex if it is not reflex.
- 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.
- 1878, James Maurice Wilson, Elementary Geometry, MacMillan, page 10:
- (painting) Illuminated by light reflected from another part of the same picture.
Synonyms
- (of an angle): re-entrant
Derived terms
Translations
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Verb
reflex
- (transitive) To bend back or turn back over itself.
- (transitive, obsolete) To reflect (light, sight, etc.).
- (transitive, obsolete) To reflect or mirror (an object), to show the image of.
- (transitive, obsolete) To cast (beams of light) on something.
- To respond to a stimulus.
Anagrams
- Flexer (alphagram eeflrx)
Catalan
Etymology
From Latinski reflexus, first attested 1803.[1]
Adjective
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- reflected
- Sinonim: reflectit
- Lua greška in package.lua at line 80: module 'Modul:labels/data/lang/ca' not found. reflex
- acte reflex ― reflex action
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- Lua greška in package.lua at line 80: module 'Modul:labels/data/lang/ca' not found. reflexive
- Sinonim: reflexiu
Noun
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- reflection (something that is reflected)
- Sinonim: reflexió
- reflex (an automatic response to a simple stimulus)
Further reading
- “reflex” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “reflex” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “reflex” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
References
- ↑ “reflex” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
Czech
Noun
reflex m
Related terms
- See flexe
Further reading
- reflex in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- reflex in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Francuski réflexe, from Latinski reflexus.
Pronunciation
Noun
reflex m (plural reflexen, diminutive reflexjes n)
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Indonesian: refleks
Hungarian
Etymology
From Nemački Reflex, from Francuski réflexe.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
reflex (plural reflexek)
- reflex (an automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing)
- (photography) reflection
- Sinonims: visszfény, tükröződés
Declension
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | reflex | reflexek |
accusative | reflexet | reflexeket |
dative | reflexnek | reflexeknek |
instrumental | reflexszel | reflexekkel |
causal-final | reflexért | reflexekért |
translative | reflexszé | reflexekké |
terminative | reflexig | reflexekig |
essive-formal | reflexként | reflexekként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | reflexben | reflexekben |
superessive | reflexen | reflexeken |
adessive | reflexnél | reflexeknél |
illative | reflexbe | reflexekbe |
sublative | reflexre | reflexekre |
allative | reflexhez | reflexekhez |
elative | reflexből | reflexekből |
delative | reflexről | reflexekről |
ablative | reflextől | reflexektől |
Possessive forms of reflex | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | reflexem | reflexeim |
2nd person sing. | reflexed | reflexeid |
3rd person sing. | reflexe | reflexei |
1st person plural | reflexünk | reflexeink |
2nd person plural | reflexetek | reflexeitek |
3rd person plural | reflexük | reflexeik |
Derived terms
References
- ↑ Tótfalusi István, Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára. Tinta Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 2005, →ISBN 963 7094 20 2
Further reading
- reflex in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN 9630535793
Romanian
Etymology
From Francuski réflexe, from Latinski Reflex.
Adjective
Declension
Swedish
Etymology
From Francuski réflexe, first attested 1811.[1]
Noun
reflex c
- a reflex, a (quick and spontaneous) reaction
- a reflector (tag, strip or band; carried by pedestrians and bicyclists to be visible from automobiles)
Declension
Declension of reflex | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | reflex | reflexen | reflexer | reflexerna |
Genitive | reflex | reflexens | reflexers | reflexernas |