Word Finder - reflection

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The act of reflecting or the state of being reflected.

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The property of a propagated wave being thrown back from a surface (such as a mirror).

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Something, such as an image, that is reflected.

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The dog barked at his own reflection in the mirror.

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Careful thought or consideration.

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After careful reflection, I have decided not to vote for that proposition.

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An implied criticism.

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It is a reflection on his character that he never came back to see them.

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The process or mechanism of determining the capabilities of an object at run-time.

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The folding of a part; a fold.

Alex spoke to her reflection in the mirror.

His teeth were white in the reflection of the flashlight.

We have seen that in perpendicular reflection a surface error not exceeding IX may be admissible.

The flash of her reflection in the mirror caught her attention.

When she retreated to the bathroom, she flipped on the light, cringed, but forced herself to stare at her reflection in the mirror over the sink.

She caught her reflection in the mirror and admired her hair.

He could see her reflection, but not the look in her eyes.

The manor house had been built several hundred years ago, and every room but hers was a reflection of her father's wealth.

Deidre looked over her shoulder at the reflection in the mirror displaying the two markings on her back.

Glancing at her reflection in the mirror, Carmen straightened her dress.

Natasha looked in the mirrors and could not distinguish her reflection from the others.

The article REFLECTION explains the symmetrical arrangement of images formed by two mirrors inclined at an angle which is a sub-multiple of four right angles.

It wasn't a reflection.

He enjoyed exceptional privileges; his feeble health excused him from the morning duties, and thus early he acquired the habit of reflection in bed, which clung to him throughout life.

The order of ideas observable in children suggests the reflection that man began to discuss the "whence " of existence before the "whither."

Wisdom is represented as the result of human reflection, and thus as the guide in all the affairs of life.

This forms the nucleus of the adult shell, and, as the animal grows, becomes enclosed by a reflection of the mantle-skirt.

When starting on a journey or changing their mode of life, men capable of reflection are generally in a serious frame of mind.

The two souls acted in accord, the soul of the animal becoming a reflection, as it were, of the soul of the god.

Rutherfurd introduced into common use the reflection grating, finding that speculum metal was less trying than glass to the diamond point, upon the permanence of which so much depends.

And this was not the result of logical reasoning but was a direct and mysterious reflection.

In the case of a reflection grating the same method applies.

He thus relieves himself of the difficulty of having at the outset to explain how the immediate data of outward sense and reflection are accepted as " qualities " of things and persons.

Only the reflection of the white snow and grey sky provided light once she stepped outside.

He recognized himself, yet his reflection was... better.

This disagreement comes largely from the attempts made to find definitely expressed Greek philosophical dogmas in the book; such formulas it has not, but the general air of Greek reflection seems unmistakable.

Hence the octave, though comparatively feeble in the incident train, may predominate in the scattered reflection constituting the echo.

It further follows, as in the analogous case of light, that there is a certain angle termed the critical angle, whose sine is found by dividing the less by the greater velocity, such that all rays of sound meeting the surface separating two different bodies will not pass onward, but suffer total reflection back into the first body, if the.

The "why?" is the DOOR THROUGH WHICH HE ENTERS THE WORLD OF REASON AND REFLECTION.

This is perhaps a reflection of a 'master storyline ' that assumes international standard-setting activities are almost solely the purview of larger organizations.

Reflection, as is required to underpin PDP for example, requires the ability to assess our own competence.

This inferiority of the Gregorian he explained as being probably due to the mutual interference of the rays as they crossed at the principal focus before reflection at the second mirror.

The decline in revenue, £4,000,000 in four years, while not a true reflection of the economic condition of the country - yearly becoming more self-supporting by the increase in home produce - caused general disquietude and injuriously affected the position of the ministry.

The species of colour, and degree of Refrangibility proper to any particular sort of Rays, is not mutable by Refraction, nor by Reflection from natural bodies, nor by any other cause, that I could yet observe.

These propositions having been reached, apart from particular experience, by reflection upon the fundamental principle, we have in them, Parmenides conceived, a body of information resting upon a firm basis and entitled to be called " truth."

But there is a primary kind of volition which has not reflection for its condition, which is yet free and spontaneous.

This brought them within the sphere of reflection, and gave as their guarantee the impossibility of thinking them reversed; and led to their being regarded as wholly relative to human intelligence, restricted to the sphere of the phenomenal, incapable of revealing to us substantial reality - necessary, yet subjective.

And "all subjectivity with all reflection expires in the spontaneity of apperception.

In external nature there are expansion and contraction History which correspond to spontaneity and reflection.

In human history the East represents the spontaneous stage; the Pagan and Christian world represent stages of reflection.

First, in the spontaneous stage, where reflection is not yet developed, and art is imperfect, humanity has thought only of the immensity around it.

We thus after all fall back on reflection as our ground for their universal application; mere spontaneity of apprehension is futile; their universality is grounded in their necessity, not their necessity in their universality.

It is not clear from the analysis whether the self is immediately observed as an acting or originating cause, or whether reflection working on the principle of causality is compelled to infer its existence and character.

When Cousin thus set himself to vindicate those points by reflection, he gave up the obvious advantage of his other position that the realities in `question are given us in immediate and spontaneous apprehension.

Immediate spontaneous apperception may seize this supreme reality; but to vindicate it by reflection as an inference on the principle of causality is impossible.

This long and varied service gave him extensive opportunities for observation, which he supplemented by constant study of naval authorities and reflection on the interpretation of the problems of maritime history.

Yet, however far he might go on the road to tyranny, Henry had sufficient cunning, versatility and power of cool reflection, to know precisely when he had reached the edge of the impossible.

He may have anticipated with something of remorse the reflection of a modern historian, that the absenteeism of her landlords has been less of a curse to Ireland 'than the absenteeism of her men of genius.

The desired result could be obtained if it were possible, by reflection or otherwise, to cause two different rays to unite without loss and pursue a common path.

He found a retreat in France, where he could unite calm reflection upon the legitimate operations of " human understanding " with attention to his health.