# transflection
## English
### Alternative forms

* transflexion

### Pronunciation

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### Etymology 1

Blend of transmission +‎ reflection

#### Noun

transflection (countable and uncountable, plural transflections)
* A type of spectroscopic measurement produced by transmitting light through a sample and reflecting it back through the sample onto a probe.
** 2007, Peter R. Griffiths, James A. De Haseth, Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometry, →ISBN, page 298:Because the beam is transmitted through the film and reflected from the substrate, the measurement of the spectra of relatively thick films on metal substrates is usually known as transflection spectrometry.
** 2008, Massimo Conio, Pieter Siersema, Alessandro Repici, Endoscopic Mucosal Resection, →ISBN, page 79:Transflection is an extension of the transmission technique, as shown in Figure 4.10. When a mirror is placed behind the sample, the light transmitted through the sample is reflected back through the sample and into the diffuse reflectance probe or integrating sphere. Transflection thus measures a combination of transmission and reflection. This technique is useful for emulsions, gels, and turbid liquids.
** 2010, David Moss, Biomedical Applications of Synchrotron Infrared Microspectroscopy, →ISBN:Individual cells may also be deposited onto a CaF2 window support, but perhaps the more practical and most appropriate (in terms of its match to cytological practices) method nowadays is to use a low-e glass slide and record a transflection spectrum, see next section.
** 2010, Da-Wen Sun, Hyperspectral Imaging for Food Quality Analysis and Control, →ISBN, page 213:The images were acquired in the transflection (interactance) mode in which illumination and measurements were performed on the same side of the sample.

### Etymology 2

Blend of translation +‎ reflection

#### Noun

transflection (countable and uncountable, plural transflections)
* (geometry) A transfiguration consisting of reflection about a line combined with translation along the same line.
** 1968, Myron Frederick Rosskopf, Joan L. Levine, Bruce Ramon Vogeli, Geometry; a Perspective View, page 236:Clearly, A", B", C" are not images of A, B, C, under either a translation, rotation, or reflection. Hopefully, it will be possible to find a unique transflection which does the job.
** 1972, Merlyn J. Behr, Dale G. Jungst, Fundamentals of elementary mathematics; geometry, volume 2, page 261:During the sequence of considering translations, rotations, reflections, and transflections of a plane α, we show that ...
** 2015, C. S. Sunandana, Introduction to Solid State Ionics: Phenomenology and Applications, →ISBN:Visualize these operations by considering the simple screw and transflection. Transflection can be imagined as seeing yourself in a mirror even as the mirror is being moved parallel to itself.

##### Synonyms

* glide reflection

### Etymology 3

Blend of transform +‎ inflection

#### Noun

transflection (countable and uncountable, plural transflections)
* (linguistics) The coining of a new word by changing of the inflectional pattern of an existing word.
** 1972, Language Quarterly - Volumes 6-10, page 25:A third means of a morphological nature is transflection, i.e., the transfer of a vocable (usually a verb) from one inflectional pattern to another.
** 2016, Lívia Körtvélyessy, Word-formation in Slavic languages:Synthetic compounds are coined productively in two basic ways, either as a combination of compounding and suffixation (6), or as a combination of compounding and transflection, in which case the right-most base lacks an overt derivational suffix (7): (6a).
** 2016, Martina Ivanová, “Variation and Variants in the Dictionary of Multiword Expressions (Focussing on Complex Nominals/Noun Compounds)”, in SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics, volume 13, number 3:Another source of variability is given by competition of different word-formation procedures, eg transflection (a word-formation procedure common in Slavic languages in which a new word is coined by a change of grammatical morpheme) vs ...