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reflection

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Frenchreflexion,reflection, and its sourceLate Latinreflexio, from the participle stem ofreflectō. The current spelling is influenced byreflect.

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Noun

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A water reflection - meanings 2 and 3

reflection (countable anduncountable,pluralreflections)

  1. The act ofreflecting or the state of beingreflected.
  2. Theproperty of apropagatedwave being thrown back from asurface (such as amirror).
  3. Something, such as animage, that is reflected.
    The dog barked at his ownreflection in the mirror.
  5. Carefulthought orconsideration.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:consideration
    After carefulreflection, I have decided not to vote for that proposition.
    • 1959,Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, inThe Unknown Ajax:
      But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his ownreflections.
  6. Arepresentativemanifestation oroutcome of acondition,trend ortrait.
    Our recent results are areflection of the progress we've made as a team.
    • 2021 November 11, “When a Logo Doesn’t Risk It All: Meta’s Brand Is Designed for Unknown Worlds”, inThe New York Times‎[2], archived fromthe original on2023-08-04:
      Zuckerberg said last month that the name change was areflection of how much Facebook had evolved.
    1. (followed byon)Used to make animpliedcriticism.
      It is areflection on his character that he never came back to see them.
  7. (computing) The process or mechanism of determining the capabilities of an object atrun-time.
    • 2002,Java Enterprise Best Practices, O'Reilly:
      DynamicMBeanFacade uses Java'sreflection API to introspect the managed resource and discover data type information for attributes.
  8. (anatomy) The folding of a part; a fold.

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Translations

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act of reflecting; the state of being reflected
property of a propagated wave
something that is reflected
careful thought or consideration
representative manifestation or outcome of a condition, trend or trait
(computing) process of determining the capabilities of an object at run-time
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