reflecting microscope see under reflect

reflect /ri-flektˈ/

1. To bend or send back or aside
2. To throw back after striking
3. To give an image of in the manner of a mirror
4. To express, reproduce (figurative)
5. To cast, shed (eg credit or discredit) (figurative)
6. To consider meditatively (that, how, etc)

1. To bend or turn back or aside
2. To be mirrored
3. To cast a light (Shakespeare)
4. To meditate (on)
5. To cast reproach or censure (on or upon)
6. To bring harmful results

reflectˈance or reflecting factor noun

Ratio of reflected radiation to incident radiation

reflectˈed adjective

1. Cast or thrown back
2. Turned or folded back
3. Mirrored

reflectˈer noun (Swift)

A person who casts reflections

reflectˈing adjective

reflectˈingly adverb

1. Meditatively
2. With implication of censure

reflection, also (now chiefly in scientific use) reflexion /ri-flekˈshən/ noun

1. A turning, bending or folding aside, back or downwards
2. Folding upon itself
3. Rebound
4. Change of direction when an electromagnetic wave or sound wave strikes on a surface and is thrown back
5. Reflected light, colour, heat, etc
6. An image in a mirror
7. (production of) a mirror image of a line or figure (by reflecting it in an axis of symmetry)
8. The conformal transformation in which a figure is reflected in a fixed line
9. The action of the mind by which it is conscious of its own operations
10. Attentive consideration
11. Contemplation
12. A thought or utterance resulting from contemplation
13. A consideration leading to discredit, censure or reproach

reflecˈtionless adjective

reflectˈive adjective

1. Reflecting
2. Reflected
3. Contemplative

reflectˈively adverb

reflectˈiveness noun

reflectivˈity noun

1. The ability to reflect rays
2. Reflectance

reflecˈtogram or reflecˈtograph noun

An image produced by reflectography

reflectogˈraphy noun

A technique used to detect underdrawing, etc in a painting, in which infra-red light is bounced off the lowest, gessoed layer and the resulting image viewed on a TV monitor

reflectomˈeter noun

Any of various instruments for measuring the properties of reflected light, colour, etc

reflectˈor noun

1. A reflecting surface, instrument or body
2. A reflecting telescope

reflecting factor see reflectance above.

reflecting microscope noun

One using a system of mirrors instead of lenses

reflecting telescope noun

One (eg the Gregorian or Newtonian) which has a concave mirror instead of an object glass (lens or lenses)

reflective binary code see Gray code

angle of reflection

The angle between a reflected ray and the normal to the surface it falls on