reflector
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reflector (plural reflectors)
- Something which reflects heat, light or sound, especially something having a reflecting surface.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, […] , and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.
- A reflecting telescope.
- A small, often red, reflecting disk on the rear of a vehicle or bicycle that reflects the headlights of other vehicles.
- A safety reflector.
- One who reflects on something; one who thinks or considers at length.
- 1993, Robert W. Terry, Authentic Leadership: Courage in Action, page 48:
- Most reflectors on leadership are comfortable thinking of "ethical" and "unethical" as modifiers of leadership.
- 2017, Joke van Velzen, Metacognitive Knowledge, page 154:
- Nonreflectors simply thought through that which they already knew, reflectors evaluated experiences by interpreting these experiences, and critical reflectors re-evaluated their presuppositions to correct distortions in reasoning and attitudes.
- Something that is reflective (indicative) of something else.
- 1982 August 28, Rob Kaplan, “Gaps in the Glass”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 7, page 8:
- The biography is an enormously powerful reflector of mainstream values: it is a statement that this person is someone, or did something, worth writing about. Similarly, because the biographer has access to myriads of details about her or his subject, what gets full exposure and what gets swept under the carpet can be more indicative of the biographer's values (and the society that instilled them) than of the actual subject's life.
- (cellular automata) A pattern which can change the direction and/or offset of an oncoming spaceship without being destroyed.
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something that reflects heat, light or sound
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reflecting telescope — see reflecting telescope
small reflecting disk on a vehicle
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safety reflector — see safety reflector
See also edit
- (telescope): refractor
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reflector (feminine reflectora, masculine plural reflectors, feminine plural reflectores)
- reflective
- Synonym: reflectant
Noun edit
reflector m (plural reflectors)
Further reading edit
- “reflector” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “reflector” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
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reflector m (plural reflectors or reflectoren, diminutive reflectortje n)
- reflector (reflecting disk on the rear of a vehicle; chiefly a bicycle)
Latin edit
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reflector
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Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: re‧flec‧tor
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reflector m (plural reflectores)
- Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1990) of refletor. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn't come into effect; may occur as a sporadic misspelling.
Adjective edit
reflector (feminine reflectora, masculine plural reflectores, feminine plural reflectoras)
- Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1990) of refletor. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn't come into effect; may occur as a sporadic misspelling.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French réflecteur.
Noun edit
reflector n (plural reflectoare)
Declension edit
Declension of reflector
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) reflector | reflectorul | (niște) reflectoare | reflectoarele |
genitive/dative | (unui) reflector | reflectorului | (unor) reflectoare | reflectoarelor |
vocative | reflectorule | reflectoarelor |
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Adjective edit
reflector (feminine reflectora, masculine plural reflectores, feminine plural reflectoras)
Noun edit
reflector m (plural reflectores)
- reflector
- spotlight
- 2015 July 7, “Violencia contra periodistas en México: de norte a sur”, in El País[1]:
- Hace cinco años los reflectores de la violencia contra periodistas estaban en otro lado, en los estados del norte.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading edit
- “reflector”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014