reflectedadj.
/rᵻˈflɛktᵻd/, U.S. /rəˈflɛktəd/, /riˈflɛktəd/ 1.
a. Of light or other form of radiation, or a ray or wave: sent back by reflection from an object or surface.In quot. a1425: of sight.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > radio wave > [adjective] > cast back
reflecteda1425
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > [adjective] > turning back or reversing course > turned back or reversed
reflecteda1425
back1857
the world > matter > light > reflection > [adjective] > reflected
reflexeda1425
repercussive1598
resultant1615
reflective1635
reflect1647
reflex1653
reflected1667
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > reflection > [adjective] > reflected
reflect1647
reflected1667
the world > matter > physics > science of sound > sound-waves > [adjective] > reflected
reflecteda1832
the world > matter > physics > energy or power of doing work > [adjective] > relating to radiation > reflecting or reflected
reflecting1591
reflected1862
the world > matter > physics > atomic nucleus > radioactivity > alpha radiation > [adjective]
reflected1909
a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) II. 299 Þe first siȝt is even siȝt, as man seeþ þing þat is bifore him; þe secounde siȝt is reflectid whan it is turned aȝen bi myrour.
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iv. f. 97 Suche varietie of colors doth naturally arise of reflected beames and a cloude set against them.
1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. bj Perspectiue, is an Art Mathematicall, which demonstrateth the maner, and properties, of all Radiations Direct, Broken, and Reflected.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 723 That Globe whose hither side With light from hence, though but reflected, shines. View more context for this quotation
1794 J. Hutton Diss. Philos. Light 109 Another term for that which has been called obscure or reflected heat.
1827 R. Pollok Course of Time II. x. 245 In native, and reflected blaze of bright Celestial equipage.
a1832 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) II. 753 A tendency in the reflected Sound to confine itself to the direction which a ray of Light regularly reflected at the echoing surface would follow.
1862 R. Mallet First Princ. Observ. Seismol. II. iii. xvi. 356 Ottajano and Somma..sustained the subordinate shock, of reflected waves from the N.E. flank of Vesuvius.
1909 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 82 497 For β-particles the number of reflected particles..decreases with the atomic weight of the reflector.
1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood ii. 37 The August night still had a faint reflected light.
1982 W. L. Heat Moon Blue Highways i. i. 3 Skeins of snow and blue geese honking north,..white bellies glowing eerily with the reflected light from town.
1996 Independent 2 Apr. 10/6 The incoming shells..use a reflected radio signal to make them explode about 30 feet above the ground.
b. Of an object or image: that appears on or in a reflective surface; mirrored. Also figurative.
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the world > matter > light > reflection > [adjective] > reflected > as in a mirror or water
reflected1594
float-glassed1632
reflex1653
subaqueous1798
mirrored1821
reverberated1896
1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. L v With looking shee blusht though none lookt vpon her but her owne reflected image.
1692 W. Molyneux Dioptrica Nova ii. 219 Let us observe the two reflected Images of a Candle.
1708 E. Arwaker in Truth in Fiction i. lxii. 85 Before the [house] Front a Brook ran gently by, Its Surface clear as the reflected Sky.
1785 W. Cowper Task i. 702 A lucid mirror, in which Nature sees All her reflected features.
1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna i. xxii. 12 That strange boat..did sway Amid reflected stars that in the waters lay.
1886 M. F. Sheldon tr. G. Flaubert Salammbô 12 The reflected torch flames quivered to the very bottom.
1935 E. Bowen House in Paris ii. xi. 223 Karen could see her eyes in the mirror, uncertainly moving from object to object in the reflected room.
2005 N.Y. Sun (Nexis) 8 Dec. 13 Often, narcissistically, the model stares at her reflected self.
c. Crystallography, Mathematics, and Physics. Transformed by reflection (reflection n. 6).
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1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. iii. xix. 204 If two straight lines which fall upon another straight line be parallel, their reflected lines shall be also parallel.
1744 Philos. Trans. 1740–41 (Royal Soc.) 41 528 As these Degrees when the reflected Line shall have run 90 Degrees in Length, will be equal to Degrees of a great Circle..therefore this reflected Line will, in our Longitude, reach to 45 Degrees of North Latitude.
1858 L. P. Hickok Rational Cosmol. ii. 204 If these reflected lines meet the perpendicular to the axis at an angle equal to a right angle, then will that curve..be a parabola.
1923 Amer. Math. Monthly 30 175 Suppose that we connect a point in the plane of a triangle, not on the circumscribed circle, with the three vertices, and reflect the three connecting lines in the bisectors of the angles; the reflected lines will also be concurrent.
1994 Math. Mag. June 189 Geometrically, P' is obtained from P by reflecting the lines AP, BP, CP in the internal angle bisectors through A, B, C respectively: The reflected lines concur in the point P'.
d. figurative. Imparted or experienced indirectly, by extension or association. Cf. reflect v. 11.
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a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V xxii, in Poems (1878) 106 As though..An Alexander, or a Pompey, great By the favor of their Age; had ingrost All The Stocke of Honour from vnfortunate Posteritye; & humane Race but tooke Reflected Glory, as on them they looke.
1715 H. Mestayer & L. Theobald Perfidious Brother iv. i. 36 If these reflected Injuries aim at Me, Say, who is my Accuser?
1776 G. Campbell Philos. of Rhetoric I. i. vii. 227 Sympathy is but a reflected feeling, and therefore, in ordinary cases, must be weaker than the original.
1825 C. Lamb in London Mag. June 217 On these occasions I am sure to be in good humour for a week or two after, and enjoy a reflected honey-moon.
1851 Gladstone Corr. Ch. & Relig. (1910) I. 358 Such griefs..must be sacred to me, even did they not touch me sharply with a reflected sorrow.
1875 A. Maclaren Serm. 2nd Ser. ii. 30 The prayer that prevails is a reflected promise. Our office in prayer is but to receive in our hearts the bright rays of His word.
1906 H. James in N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 554 And there is nothing, the city through, that doesn't receive a mild side light of a reflected interest from its neighborhood.
1947 Greece & Rome 16 9 Part of that enrichment comes through historical events, part of it through the reflected influence of other works of art.
1989 Prediction May (Insert) x3 Some astrologers have described the Moon as representing a kind of reflected self.
2. Chiefly Anatomy and Zoology. Bent, folded, or turned back; recurved. Cf. reflexed adj. 2a.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [adjective] > backwards
recurve?a1425
recourbleda1492
recurvate1556
retorted1571
reflected1578
back-turneda1586
reflexed1597
recurved1598
reverteda1616
reflex1633
recurvous1713
retroflected1765
retrorsal1870
1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 16 A very Obtuse or blunt corner: but the hinder part therof, which is more inward..is hollow in reflected or bowed manner.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vi. xxiii. 227/2 His haire for more ornament long hee wore in reflected curles vpon his shoulders.
1740 W. Cheselden Anat. Human Body (ed. 5) xv. 238 The only nerves proceeding from the encephalon not described, are the reflected branches of the fifth and sixth.
1776 W. Withering Bot. Arrangem. Veg. Great Brit. I. 57 Shafts two; reflected; hairy.
1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. iii. ii. 84 A thick peristome, terminating in an abrupt or reflected margin.
1894 H. Gough & J. Parker Gloss. Terms Heraldry 495 Reflected or reflexed: bent back, e.g. of a chain to a collar; a lion's tail is reflected over the back, but the term is seldom, if ever, needed.
1961 J. Stubblefield Davies's Introd. Palaeontol. (ed. 3) i. 18 After growing to a length of about two centimetres..the surface of the ventral valve becomes bent at about right angles (reflected).
2006 Surgery (Oxf.) 24 257/2 His name [sc. Colles] is also applied to the reflected part of the inguinal ligament.
3. Produced or characterized by the process of mental reflection; considered; reflective.
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a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1959) IV. 306 It is a second, a ruminated, a reflected knowledge.
1774 I. Subremont tr. J. Stinstra Ess. on Fanaticism 18 The sorrow a man feels for his sins, be grounded upon a reflected knowledge he has of himself and of the manner in which he has lived.
1802 Poet. Reg. 1801 189 Entranc'd In reflected thought.
1893 Times 14 June 6/1 Though we have a formal vote of the House of Commons we have not the reflected decision of that body.
1945 Philos. Rev. 54 226 Plenty of broadly informed and deeply reflected discussion of the great and vague questions that constitute philosophy to the common man.
1985 A. Heller Power of Shame 78 ‘Mere opinion’ meant unreflected thinking in all societal spheres or institutions.., whereas true knowledge meant reflected thinking in exactly the same spheres.
2000 I. E. Thompson et al. Nursing Ethics (ed. 4) 25 [The book] involves a reflected discussion of ‘principalism’ after two decades of applying this approach.
4. Grammar. = reflexive adj. 5. Now rare.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > other grammatical categories or concepts > [adjective] > reflexive
reciprocal1611
reflexive1677
reflective1716
reflected1719
reflex1810
1719 J. Henley Compl. Linguist Oct. 64 In reflected Verbs, when a Noun follows, it [sc. the Participle] is declin'd.
1731 D. Duncan New Eng. Gram. 17 These are called Identick or Reflected pronominal Verbs, because he that does the Action, and he upon whom it falls, are the same.
1769 J. Bell Conc. & Comprehensive Syst. Eng. Gram. iii. iii. 211 The active and passive verbs are also divided into two sorts, viz. Reflected and Reciprocal…An active or passive reflected verb, is that which reflects or returns the action or impression, upon the subject that produces it.
1824 W. Cobbett French Gram. (1832) 368 Any active verb may be, and, indeed, indeed, must be, used in the same way as a reflected verb, if the action be done to the actor.
1859 E. Norris Anc. Cornish Drama II. 281 A reflected verb is made, as in Welsh, by prefixing the syllable ym (em, om).
1970 I. Michael Eng. Grammatical Categories II. xii. 391 Reflected verb, an occasional term for a verb followed by compounds in -self.
Compounds
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1658 J. Collins (title) The sector on a quadrant, or, A treatise containing the description and use of three several quadrants... Also an appendix touching reflected dyalling, from a glass however posited.
1710 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum II Reflected Dialling is the Art of describing..all the Furniture of Dials on such Places as the Suns direct Rays can never come to directly, but only by the help of some reflecting Surface.
reflected glory n. fame or approval achieved through association with someone or something else, rather than through one's own efforts (frequently as part of an extended metaphor).
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a1657Reflected Glory [see sense 1d].
1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. lviii. 384 She, by the Advantages only of his reflected Glory,..glides along with her paler and fainter Beaminess.
1873 A. Trollope Eustace Diamonds I. iv. 44 Women like to feel that the young men belonging to them are doing something in the world, so that a reflected glory may be theirs.
1958 Times 15 Aug. 6/5 Signor Fanfani..is enjoying some reflected glory from President Eisenhower's speech to the United Nations General Assembly.
2004 Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) (Nexis) 23 Mar. d8 Another coach who is basking in the reflected glory of the Black Caps.
Derivatives
reˈflectedness n. rare
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the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > [noun] > state or quality of
penseec1485
thoughtfulness1594
reflexivenessa1651
considerateness1651
reflectedness1688
reflectivenessa1703
considerativeness1710
contemplativeness1727
cogitativeness1823
meditativenessa1834
submergence1872
brood1895
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xi. 260/2 He beareth Azure, the Head of an Avosetta proper, it is from the reflectedness of its Bill, termed a Recurvirostra.
1863 S. Wilberforce Ess. (1874) I. 323 He had neither the theological learning nor the calm sagacious reflectedness necessary for working out..such tangled threads.
1998 M. Heim Virtual Realism iv. 100 Apperception implies a reflectedness, a proprioception, a self-awareness of what we are perceiving or doing.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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