reflection
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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.
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NounEdit
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.
- 2002, Java Enterprise Best Practices (O'Reilly)
- (anatomy) The folding of a part; a fold.
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TranslationsEdit
act of reflecting; the state of being reflected
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property of a propagated wave
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something that is reflected
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careful thought or consideration
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computing: Process of determining the capabilities of an object at run-time
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