reflection

EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

reflexion

EtymologyEdit

From Middle French reflexion, reflection, and its source Late Latin reflexio, from the participle stem of reflectō. The current spelling is influenced by reflect.

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈflɛkʃən/
Audio (US) (file)
Hyphenation: re‧flec‧tion
Rhymes: -ɛkʃən

NounEdit

A water reflection - meanings 2 and 3

reflection (countable and uncountable, plural reflections)

The act of reflecting or the state of being reflected.
The property of a propagated wave being thrown back from a surface (such as a mirror).
Something, such as an image, that is reflected.
The dog barked at his own reflection in the mirror.
Careful thought or consideration.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:consideration

After careful reflection, I have decided not to vote for that proposition.
- 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
  But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections.
An implied criticism.
It is a reflection on his character that he never came back to see them.
(computing) The process or mechanism of determining the capabilities of an object at run-time.
- 2002, Java Enterprise Best Practices (O'Reilly)
  DynamicMBeanFacade uses Java's reflection API to introspect the managed resource and discover data type information for attributes.
(anatomy) The folding of a part; a fold.

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TranslationsEdit

act of reflecting; the state of being reflected

Albanian: reflektim (sq) m
Arabic: اِنْعِكَاس‎ (ar) m (inʕikās), عَكْس‎ (ar) m (ʕaks)
Armenian: արտացոլում (hy) (artacʿolum)
Azerbaijani: əks (az), in'ikas
Belarusian: адлюстрава́нне n (adljustravánnje), адбіццё n (adbiccjó)
Bulgarian: отразяване n (otrazjavane)
Catalan: reflexió (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 反射 (zh) (fǎnshè), 反映 (zh) (fǎnyìng)
Czech: odraz (cs) m
Danish: afspejling c, refleksion (da) c
Dutch: reflectie (nl) f, weerspiegeling (nl) f, weerbeeld (nl) n
Esperanto: reflekto
Estonian: peegeldus
Finnish: heijastuminen (fi), peilaantuminen, peilaus
French: réflexion (fr) f
Galician: reflexión f
Georgian: ანარეკლი (anareḳli)
German: Reflexion (de) f, Abbild (de) n, Reflektion (de) f
Greek: αντανάκλαση (el) f (antanáklasi)
Hebrew: השתקפות‎ f (hishtak'fut)
Hindi: परावर्तन (hi) m (parāvartan), प्रतिबिंब (hi) m (pratibimb)
Hungarian: tükröződés (hu), visszatükrözés, visszatükröződés
Indonesian: pantulan (id)
Irish: frithchaitheamh m
Italian: riflessione (it)
Japanese: 反射 (ja) (はんしゃ, hansha)
Kazakh: кескін (kk) (keskın)
Korean: 반사 (ko) (bansa)
Macedonian: одраз m (odraz)
Malagasy: fitarafana (mg)
Malay: pemantulan, pantulan (ms)
Malayalam: പ്രതിഫലനം (ml) (pratifalanaṃ)
Maori: whakaatanga, whakaatatanga
Norwegian:
Bokmål: refleksjon m
Persian: بازتاب‎ (fa) (bâztâb), فرتور‎ (fartur), انعکاس‎ (fa) (en'ekâs), عکس‎ (fa) ('aks)
Polish: odbicie (pl) n
Portuguese: reflexão (pt) f
Romanian: reflectare (ro) f, reflecție (ro) f, reflexie (ro) f
Russian: отраже́ние (ru) n (otražénije)
Scottish Gaelic: faileas m, sgàile f
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: odbles m, ȍdsjāj (sh) m, odblesak m, ȍdrāz (sh) m
Slovak: odraz m
Slovene: odraz m, odboj (sl) m
Spanish: reflexión (es) f
Swedish: reflexion (sv)
Tagalog: sabalik
Tajik: акс (tg) (aks), инъикос (tg) (inʾikos)
Thai: การสะท้อน (th)
Turkish: yansıma (tr)
Ukrainian: відбиття́ n (vidbyttjá)
Uzbek: aks (uz)

property of a propagated wave

Afrikaans: weerkaatsing
Bulgarian: отражение (bg) n (otraženie)
Catalan: reflexió (ca) f
Finnish: peilaantuminen
German: Reflektion (de) f
Hungarian: visszaverődés (hu)
Indonesian: bayangan (id)
Maori: whakaatanga
Polish: odbicie (pl) n, refleks (pl) m
Russian: отраже́ние (ru) n (otražénije)
Tagalog: sabalik
Turkish: yansıma (tr)

something that is reflected

Bulgarian: образ (bg) m (obraz), отражение (bg) n (otraženie)
Catalan: reflex (ca) m
Czech: odraz (cs) m
Esperanto: speguliĝo
Finnish: peilikuva (fi)
French: reflet (fr) m
Galician: reflexo m
German: Reflektion (de) f
Greek:
Ancient: ἔμφασις f (émphasis)
Hungarian: tükörkép (hu)
Indonesian: cerminan (id)
Irish: scáil f
Italian: riflesso (it), riverbero (it)
Japanese: 反映 (ja) (はんえい, han'ei)
Malagasy: fitaratra (mg)
Malay: pantulan (ms)
Malayalam: പ്രതിബിംബം (ml) (pratibimbaṃ)
Maori: whakaata
Polish: odbicie (pl) n
Portuguese: reflexo (pt) m
Russian: отраже́ние (ru) n (otražénije)
Scottish Gaelic: faileas m, sgàile f
Spanish: reflejo (es) m
Turkish: yansıma (tr)
Welsh: adlewyrchiad m

careful thought or consideration

Bulgarian: размишление (bg) n (razmišlenie)
Catalan: reflexió (ca) f
Czech: úvaha (cs) f, reflexe (cs) f
Danish: refleksion (da) c
Esperanto: konsidero
Finnish: pohdiskelu (fi), harkinta (fi)
German: Abwägung (de) f, Reflektion (de) f
Hungarian: gondolkodás (hu), átgondolás, megfontolás (hu)
Indonesian: renungan (id)
Irish: athmhachnamh m
Malagasy: fieritreretana (mg)
Maori: whakaaroarohanga
Navajo: nabíkʼítsídzíłkees
Plautdietsch: Bedenkjen n
Portuguese: reflexão (pt) f
Russian: размышле́ние (ru) n (razmyšlénije)
Sanskrit: ध्यान (sa) n (dhyāna)
Scottish Gaelic: smaoin f
Welsh: myfyrdod m

an implied criticism

Indonesian: celaan (id)

computing: Process of determining the capabilities of an object at run-time

Finnish: reflektio
German: Reflexion (de) f
Indonesian: refleksi (id)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

French: (meanings 1, 2 and 3) ^{(please verify)} reflet (fr), (meaning 4) ^{(please verify)} réflexion (fr)
Greek: ^{(please verify)} αντανάκλαση (el) f (antanáklasi) (1,2,3), ^{(please verify)} είδωλο (el) n (eídolo) (3), ^{(please verify)} σκέψη (el) f (sképsi) (4)
Telugu: ^{(please verify)} పరావర్తనము (te) (parāvartanamu)