Definition of reflection

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Reflection (n.) The return of rays, beams, sound, or the like, from a surface. See Angle of reflection, below..

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Resolve :: Resolve (v. i.) To form a purpose; to make a decision; especially, to determine after reflection; as, to resolve on a better course of life..
Anacamptically :: Anacamptically (adv.) By reflection; as, echoes are sound produced anacamptically..
Reflection :: Reflection (n.) That which is produced by reflection.
Rook :: Rook (n.) A European bird (Corvus frugilegus) resembling the crow, but smaller. It is black, with purple and violet reflections. The base of the beak and the region around it are covered with a rough, scabrous skin, which in old birds is whitish. It is gregarious in its habits. The name is also applied to related Asiatic species..
Reflectingly :: Reflectingly (adv.) With reflection; also, with censure; reproachfully..
Glance :: Glance (v. i.) To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; -- often with at.
Shine :: Shine (v. i.) To be bright by reflection of light; to gleam; to be glossy; as, to shine like polished silver..
Reflection :: Reflection (n.) The act of reflecting, or turning or sending back, or the state of being reflected..
Reflection :: Reflection (n.) A part reflected, or turned back, at an angle; as, the reflection of a membrane..
Backwards :: Backwards (adv.) By way of reflection; reflexively.
Thought :: Thought (n.) The act of thinking; the exercise of the mind in any of its higher forms; reflection; cogitation.
Stereoscopic :: Stereoscope (n.) An optical instrument for giving to pictures the appearance of solid forms, as seen in nature. It combines in one, through a bending of the rays of light, two pictures, taken for the purpose from points of view a little way apart. It is furnished with two eyeglasses, and by refraction or reflection the pictures are superimposed, so as to appear as one to the observer..
Mirage :: Mirage (n.) An optical effect, sometimes seen on the ocean, but more frequently in deserts, due to total reflection of light at the surface common to two strata of air differently heated. The reflected image is seen, commonly in an inverted position, while the real object may or may not be in sight. When the surface is horizontal, and below the eye, the appearance is that of a sheet of water in which the object is seen reflected; when the reflecting surface is above the eye, the image is seen pr
Reflection :: Reflection (n.) Censure; reproach cast.
Rumination :: Rumination (n.) The state of being disposed to ruminate or ponder; deliberate meditation or reflection.
Consideration :: Consideration (n.) The result of delibration, or of attention and examonation; matured opinion; a reflection; as, considerations on the choice of a profession..
Regard :: Regard (v. t.) Consideration; thought; reflection; heed.
Image :: Image (n.) The figure or picture of any object formed at the focus of a lens or mirror, by rays of light from the several points of the object symmetrically refracted or reflected to corresponding points in such focus; this may be received on a screen, a photographic plate, or the retina of the eye, and viewed directly by the eye, or with an eyeglass, as in the telescope and microscope; the likeness of an object formed by reflection; as, to see one's image in a mirror..
Reflexion :: Reflexion (n.) See Reflection.
Fluorescence :: Fluorescence (n.) That property which some transparent bodies have of producing at their surface, or within their substance, light different in color from the mass of the material, as when green crystals of fluor spar afford blue reflections. It is due not to the difference in the color of a distinct surface layer, but to the power which the substance has of modifying the light incident upon it. The light emitted by fluorescent substances is in general of lower refrangibility than the incident l
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