reflection
The act of reflecting or the state of being reflected.
Other meanings
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.”
A kind of
- picture
Related words
- angle of reflection
- antireflection
- complete internal reflection
- Fresnel reflection
- glide reflection
- hyporeflection
- interreflection
- metareflection
- misreflection
- multireflection
- no-reflection
- oblique reflection
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "reflexiō".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “reflection” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.