reflex
suomi-englanti sanakirjareflex englannista suomeksi
tahaton, refleksimäinen
refleksi
reflex englanniksi
An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.
1970, (w), trans. Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox, ''(w)'':
- 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.
(quote-journal)
The descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a language.
(syn)
(ant)
(cot)
The ancestor word corresponding to a descendant.
(quote-book)
The descendant of anything from an earlier time, such as a cultural myth.
{{quote-text|en|year=1898|author=Christian Brinton|title=The Century
Reflection or an image produced by reflection. The light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
(ux)
(RQ:Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet)
(RQ:Tennyson In Memoriam)
(RQ:Hale Mankind)
Produced automatically by a stimulus.
Having greater than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees.
{{quote-book|en|year=1878|author=James Maurice Wilson|title=Elementary Geometry|publisher=MacMillan|pageurl=http://books.google.ca/books?id=eTMDAAAAQAAJ&q=reflexv=snippet&q=%22angles%20is%20reflex&f=false|page=10
{{quote-text|en|year=1895|author=David Eugen Smith; Wooster Woodruff Bernan|title=New Plane and Solid Geometry|page=7
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.
{{quote-book|en|year=1991|author=B. Falcidieno; et al|chapter=Configurable Representations in Feature-based Modelling|title=Eurographics '91: Proceedings|publisher=North-Holland|page=145
{{quote-text|en|year=2001|author=Esther M. Arkin; et al|chapter=On the Reflexivity of Point Sets|title=Algorithms and data structures: 7th International Workshop, WADS 2001: Proceedings|page=195|publisher=Springer
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.
Illuminated by light reflected from another part of the same picture.
(RQ:Marlowe Tamburlaine)
To respond to a stimulus.
(l)
(uxi)
reflection (gloss)
(l) (gloss)
(l)
a (l), a (quick and spontaneous) reaction
a reflector (tag, strip or band; carried by pedestrians and bicyclists to be visible from automobiles)
a (l) (reflection)