reflex
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: arts
geometry
hobbies
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
mathematics
photography
sciences
Etymology: From Late Latin reflexus, past participle of reflectere (“to bend back”), equivalent to re- + flex. Photography sense is from noun sense meaning “reflection”. Compare English reflect.
Base: flex
Affixes: re-
Inflected forms:
form: reflexes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more reflex
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most reflex
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: reflexes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reflexing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reflexed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reflexed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
He met Luis Suarez's cross at the far post, only for Chelsea keeper Petr Cech to show brilliant reflexes to deflect his header on to the bar. Carroll turned away to lead Liverpool's insistent protests that the ball had crossed the line but referee Phil Dowd and assistant referee Andrew Garratt waved play on, with even a succession of replays proving inconclusive.
gloss: The descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter language.
pos: noun
gloss: The ancestor word corresponding to a descendant.
pos: noun
tags: rare
examples: The Middle Korean reflex for mey was mwoy 뫼
gloss: The descendant of anything from an earlier time, such as a cultural myth.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A reflection or an image produced by a reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
pos: noun
examples: A reflex camera uses a mirror to reflect the image onto a ground-glass viewfinder.
Yon gray is not the morning’s eye,
 ’Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow.
On the depths of death there swims
 The reflex of a human face.
Lucy is sleeping soundly; the reflex of the dawn is high and far over the sea[.]
gloss: Bent, turned back or reflected.
pos: adj
examples: the reflex act of the soul, or the turning of the intellectual eye inward upon its own actions
gloss: Produced automatically by a stimulus.
pos: adj
examples: It's easier to focus on the particular relationship or object (as in 'pornography', for example) than on the sexist (racist, ageist, etc.) attitudes that generate the almost reflex violence taught in our schools, churches, legal processes, families, mass entertainment, and advertising propaganda.
gloss: Having greater than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees.
pos: adj
examples: A polygon is said to be convex when no one of its angles is reflex.
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.
If the reflex region is the interior of the angle, the dihedral angle is reflex.
A reflex edge of a polyhedron is an edge where the inner dihedral angle subtended by two incident faces is greater than 180°.
We say that an angle is convex if it is not reflex.
P denotes a polygon and r the number of reflex vertices.
gloss: Illuminated by light reflected from another part of the same picture.
pos: adj
gloss: To bend back or turn back over itself.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To reflect (light, sight, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To reflect or mirror (an object), to show the image of.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To cast (beams of light) on something.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: The ſpring is hindered by your ſmoothering hoſt,
For neither rain can fall vpon the earth,
Nor Sun reflexe his vertuous beames thereon.
The ground is mantled with ſuch multitudes.
gloss: To respond to a stimulus.
pos: verb
Derived words: Achilles reflex
Achilles tendon reflex time
Babinski's reflex
baroreflex
Chaddock reflex
chemoreflex
digital single-lens reflex
digital single-lens reflex camera
excitoreflex
hyperreflexia
hyporeflexia
kneejerk reflex
mechanoreflex
metaboreflex
Moro reflex
multireflex
neuroreflex
pharyngeal reflex
plantar reflex
primitive reflex
reflex bleeding
reflexless
reflexmate
reflexogenic
reflexograph
reflexology
single lens reflex
twin lens reflex
unconditioned reflex
zoom-lens reflex
patellar reflex
abdominal reflex
abdominocardiac reflex
Babinski reflex
bass reflex
conditioned reflex
Cushing reflex
dual-lens reflex
dysphoric milk ejection reflex
ergoreflex
Ferguson reflex
gag reflex
Lombard reflex
nonreflex
photic sneeze reflex
pilomotor reflex
reflex angle
reflex arc
reflex camera
reflex hammer
reflexly
reflex mirror
reflexness
reflex response
reflex sympathetic dystrophy
reflex viewfinder
rooting reflex
semireflex
single-lens reflex
SLR
startle reflex
TLR
twin-lens reflex
unkenreflex
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: огледален
roman: ogledalen
lang: Hungarian
word: tükörreflexes
lang: Spanish
word: réflex