Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Reflecting"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Reflect \Re*flect"\ (r?*fl?kt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Reflected}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Reflecting}.] [L. reflectere,
reflexum; pref. re- re- + flectere to bend or turn. See
{Flexible}, and cf. {Reflex}, v.]
1. To bend back; to give a backwa?d turn to; to throw back;
especially, to cause to return after striking upon any
surface; as, a mirror reflects rays of light; polished
metals reflect heat.

Let me mind the reader to reflect his eye on our
quotations. --Fuller.

Bodies close together reflect their own color.
--Dryden.

2. To give back an image or likeness of; to mirror.

Nature is the glass reflecting God, As by the sea
reflected is the sun. --Young.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Reflecting \Re*flect"ing\, a.
1. Throwing back light, heat, etc., as a mirror or other
surface.

2. Given to reflection or serious consideration; reflective;
contemplative; as, a reflecting mind.

{Reflecting circle}, an astronomical instrument for measuring
angless, like the sextant or Hadley's quadrant, by the
reflection of light from two plane mirrors which it
carries, and differing from the sextant chiefly in having
an entire circle.

{Reflecting galvanometer}, a galvanometer in which the
deflections of the needle are read by means of a mirror
attached to it, which reflects a ray of light or the image
of a scale; -- called also {mirror galvanometer}.

{Reflecting goniometer}. See under {Goniometer}.

{Reflecting telescope}. See under {Telescope}.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

reflecting
adj : causing reflection or having a device that reflects; "a
reflecting microscope"


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