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reflex

Etymology

From Late Latin reflexus, past participle of reflectere (“to bend back”). Photography sense is from noun sense meaning “reflection”.

Pronunciation

• (noun, adjective) IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːflɛks/
• (verb) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈflɛks/

Noun

reflex (plural reflexes)

1. An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.
   • 1970, Stanisław Lem, trans. Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox, Solaris:

     For a while, I shall have to make a conscious effort to smile, nod, stand and perform the thousands of little gestures which constitute life on Earth, and then those gestures will become reflexes again.
2. (linguistics) The descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter language.

   Synonym: derivative

   Antonym: etymon

   Coordinate term: cognate

3. (linguistics, rare) The ancestor word corresponding to a descendant.
4. The descendant of anything from an earlier time, such as a cultural myth.
5. (chiefly photography) Reflection or an image produced by reflection. The light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.

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Translations

Adjective

reflex (comparative more reflex, superlative most reflex)

1. Bent, turned back or reflected.
2. Produced automatically by a stimulus.
3. (geometry, of an angle) Having greater than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees.
   • 1958, Howard Fehr, “On Teaching Dihedral Angle and Steradian” in The Mathematics Teacher, v 51, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, page 275:

     If the reflex region is the interior of the angle, the dihedral angle is reflex.

   • 2004, Ana Paula Tomás and António Leslie Bajuelos, “Quadratic-Time Linear-Space Algorithms Generating Orthogonal Polygons with a Given Number of Vertices”, in Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2004 Proceedings, part 3, Springer, page 117:

     P denotes a polygon and r the number of reflex vertices.

4. (painting) Illuminated by light reflected from another part of the same picture.

Synonyms

• (of an angle): re-entrant

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Translations

Verb

reflex (third-person singular simple present reflexes, present participle reflexing, simple past and past participle reflexed)

1. (transitive) To bend back or turn back over itself.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To reflect (light, sight, etc.).
3. (transitive, obsolete) To reflect or mirror (an object), to show the image of.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To cast (beams of light) on something.
5. To respond to a stimulus.

Anagrams

• Flexer

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin reflexus. First attested in 1803.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [rəˈflɛks]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [reˈflɛks]

Adjective

reflex (feminine reflexa, masculine plural reflexos, feminine plural reflexes)

1. reflected

   Synonym: reflectit

2. (psychology) reflex

   acte reflex ― reflex action

3. (botany) reflexed
4. (linguistics) reflexive

   Synonym: reflexiu

Noun

reflex m (plural reflexos)

1. reflection (something that is reflected)

   Synonym: reflexió

2. reflex (an automatic response to a simple stimulus)

References

Further reading

• “reflex” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “reflex” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “reflex” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Noun

reflex m inan

1. reflex

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Related terms

• See flexe

Further reading

• reflex in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• reflex in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French réflexe, from Latin reflexus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reːˈflɛks/, /rəˈflɛks/
• Hyphenation: re‧flex
• Rhymes: -ɛks

Noun

reflex m (plural reflexen, diminutive reflexjes n)

1. reflex (automatic response by an organism)

   Synonym: reflexus

Derived terms

• reflexachtig
• reflexmatig

Descendants

• → Indonesian: refleks

Hungarian

Etymology

From German Reflex, from French réflexe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɛflɛks]
• Hyphenation: ref‧lex
• Rhymes: -ɛks

Noun

reflex (plural reflexek)

1. reflex (an automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing)
2. (photography) reflection

   Synonyms: visszfény, tükröződés

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• reflex in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French réflexe, from Latin Reflex.

Adjective

reflex m or n (feminine singular reflexă, masculine plural reflecși, feminine and neuter plural reflexe)

1. reflex

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

From French réflexe, first attested 1811.

Noun

reflex c

1. a reflex, a (quick and spontaneous) reaction
2. a reflector (tag, strip or band; carried by pedestrians and bicyclists to be visible from automobiles)
3. a reflex (reflection)

Declension

Derived terms

• betingad reflex (“conditioned reflex”)
• reflexväst (“reflective vest, high-visibility vest”)

References

• reflex in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• reflex in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)