单词 | reflexive |
释义 | reflexive —reflexively, adv. —reflexiveness, reflexivity /ree'flek siv"i tee/, n. /ri flek"siv/, adj. 1. Gram. a. (of a verb) taking a subject and object with identical referents, as shave in I shave myself. b. (of a pronoun) used as an object to refer to the subject of a verb, as myself in I shave myself. 2. reflex; responsive. 3. able to reflect; reflective. 4. Math. a. noting a relation in which each element is in relation to itself, as the relation "less than or equal to." Cf. antireflexive. b. (of a vector space) having the property that the dual space of the dual space of the given vector space equals the given vector space. n. 5. Gram. a reflexive verb or pronoun. [1580-90; < ML reflexivus turned back, reflected. See REFLEX, -IVE] |
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