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Reflection   /rəflˈɛkʃən/  /rɪflˈɛkʃən/   Listen
Reflection

noun
(Written also reflexion)
1.
A calm, lengthy, intent consideration.  Synonyms: contemplation, musing, reflexion, rumination, thoughtfulness.
2.
The phenomenon of a propagating wave (light or sound) being thrown back from a surface.  Synonym: reflexion.
3.
Expression without words.  Synonyms: expression, manifestation, reflexion.  "The pulse is a reflection of the heart's condition"
4.
A likeness in which left and right are reversed.  Synonyms: mirror image, reflexion.
5.
The image of something as reflected by a mirror (or other reflective material).  Synonym: reflexion.
6.
(mathematics) a transformation in which the direction of one axis is reversed.
7.
A remark expressing careful consideration.  Synonyms: observation, reflexion.
8.
The ability to reflect beams or rays.  Synonyms: reflectivity, reflexion.



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"Reflection" Quotes from Famous Books



... Mehetabel ran among sheets of gold, leaped ribbons of shining metal, danced among golden filagree—the reflection of the orb in the patches, channels, frets of water. She sprang from one dark tuft of rushes to another; she ran along the ridges of the sand. She skipped where the surface was treacherous. What mattered it to her if she missed ...
— The Broom-Squire • S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
... the spoon and sit in his sugar and water, and then appear to wonder where it goes to. His plumage is in rather a drabbled state, owing to these performances. I have sketched him as he sat to-day on a bit of Spiraea which I brought in for him. When absorbed in reflection, he sits with his bill straight up in the air, as I have drawn him. Mr. A—— reads Macaulay to us, and you should see the wise air with which, perched on Jenny's thumb, he cocked his head now one side and then the other, apparently listening with most critical ...
— Our Young Folks, Vol 1, No. 1 - An Illustrated Magazine • Various
... possessors of great gifts have known the blessings of that careless happy time; their unusual powers stir within them, and, instead of the natural life of perception—the objective, as the Germans call it—they begin the deeper life of reflection—the subjective. ...
— The Life of Charlotte Bronte - Volume 1 • Elizabeth Gaskell
... ask what purpose is served by the pain associated with labor; and a moment's reflection will make it clear that one reason for the discomfort is the warning which it gives of the approach of birth. If the mother were not thus cautioned, she might be delivered under very awkward circumstances, and even under such conditions that occasionally the infant would perish ...
— The Prospective Mother - A Handbook for Women During Pregnancy • J. Morris Slemons
... Isaura, her whole face brightening; "and you come on the part of Gustave Rameau to say that on reflection he does not hold me to our engagement—that in honour and in conscience ...
— The Parisians, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton


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