Reflex
['riːfleks] or ['riflɛks]
Definition
(noun.) an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus.
Checked by Elisha--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive; introspective.
(a.) Produced in reaction, in resistance, or in return.
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or produced by, stimulus or excitation without the necessary intervention of consciousness.
(n.) Reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
(n.) An involuntary movement produced by reflex action.
(v. t.) To reflect.
(v. t.) To bend back; to turn back.
Checker: Melva
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Retroactive.[2]. (Bot.) Reflected, bent back.
Typist: Rosanna
Definition
adj. bent or turned back: reflected: reciprocal: acting and reacting as reflex influence: (physiol.) said of certain movements which take place independent of the will being sent back from a nerve-centre in answer to a stimulus from the surface: (paint.) illuminated by light reflected from another part of the same picture.—n. reflection: light reflected from an illuminated surface: a copy.—v.t. Reflex′ to bend back.—p.adj. Reflexed′ (bot.) bent backward or downward.—n. Reflexibil′ity.—adjs. Reflex′ible Reflect′ible that may be reflected or thrown back.—n. Reflex′ity.—adj. Reflex′ive turning backward: reflective: respecting the past: relating to a verb in which the action turns back upon the subject as I bethought myself.—adv. Reflex′ively.—n. Reflex′iveness the state or quality of being reflexive.—adv. Rē′flexly (also Reflex′ly).—adj. Reflexogen′ic tending to increase reflex motions.
Editor: Rhoda
Examples
- Is not the dominant and masterful power of the lion or the eagle related to a carniverous diet, and the mild and placid temper of the ox the reflex expression of his vegetable food? Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It was moonless, but the reflex from the many glowing windows lit the court brightly, and even the alleys--dimly. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Her hand had hit my nose and eyes, and tears came in my eyes from the reflex. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- If her forehead shone luminous with the reflex of a halo, I knew in the fire of whose irids that circlet of holy flame had generation. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Confidence is not a name for what one thinks or feels about his attitude it is not reflex. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It was as though a reflex lens camera had been suddenly brought into focus. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The spirit of harmony and the Dorian mode are to prevail, and the whole State is to have an external beauty which is the reflex of the harmony within. Plato. The Republic.
- I made notes of my patient's pulse and temperature, tested the rigidity of his muscles, and examined his reflexes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
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