reflex

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From Late Latin reflexus, past participle of reflectere (“to bend back”). Photography sense is from noun sense meaning “reflection”.

• (noun, adjective) МФА^(кључ): /ˈɹiːflɛks/

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• (verb) МФА^(кључ): /ɹɪˈflɛks/

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reflex (plural reflexes)

Примери
English eye is the reflex of Old English ēage.

1. An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.
   • 1970, Stanisław Lem, trans. Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox, Solaris:

     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.

   • 2012 мај 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     He met Luis Suarez's cross at the far post, only for Chelsea keeper Petr Cech to show brilliant reflexes to deflect his header on to the bar. Carroll turned away to lead Liverpool's insistent protests that the ball had crossed the line but referee Phil Dowd and assistant referee Andrew Garratt waved play on, with even a succession of replays proving inconclusive.

2. (linguistics) The descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter language.

   Синоним: derivative

   Антоним: etymon

   Координатни термин: cognate

3. (linguistics, rare) The ancestor word corresponding to a descendant.
   • 2011, Ki-Moon Lee and S. Robert Ramsey, A history of the Korean language:

     The Middle Korean reflex for mey was mwoy 뫼 (mwoy)

4. The descendant of anything from an earlier time, such as a cultural myth.
   • 1898, Christian Brinton, in The Century

     The superstition of the loup-garou, or werewolf, belongs to the folklore of most modern nations, and has its reflex in the story of "Little Red Riding-hood" and others.

5. (chiefly фотографија) Reflection or an image produced by reflection. The light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.

   A reflex camera uses a mirror to reflect the image onto a ground-glass viewfinder.

   • Шаблон:RQ:Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet
   • Шаблон:RQ:Tennyson In Memoriam
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, published 1993, page 88:

     Lucy is sleeping soundly; the reflex of the dawn is high and far over the sea[.]

reflex (comparative more reflex, superlative most reflex)

1. Bent, turned back or reflected.
   • Шаблон:RQ:Hale Mankind
2. Produced automatically by a stimulus.
3. (geometry, of an angle) Having greater than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees.
   • 1878, James Maurice Wilson, Elementary Geometry, MacMillan, page 10:

     A polygon is said to be convex when no one of its angles is reflex.

   • 1895, David Eugen Smith and Wooster Woodruff Bernan, New Plane and Solid Geometry, page 7:

     An angle less than a right angle is said to be acute; one greater than a right angle but less than a straight angle is said to be obtuse; one greater than a straight angle but less than a perigon is said to be reflex or convex.

   • 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.

   • 1991, B. Falcidieno et al, “Configurable Representations in Feature-based Modelling” in Eurographics '91: Proceedings, North-Holland, page 145:

     A reflex edge of a polyhedron is an edge where the inner dihedral angle subtended by two incident faces is greater than 180°.

   • 2001, Esther M. Arkin et al, “On the Reflexivity of Point Sets”, in Algorithms and data structures: 7th International Workshop, WADS 2001: Proceedings, Springer, page 195:

     We say that an angle is convex if it is not reflex.

   • 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.

4. (painting) Illuminated by light reflected from another part of the same picture.

• (of an angle): re-entrant

reflex (third-person singular simple present reflexes, present participle reflexing, simple past and past participle reflexed)

1. (transitive) To bend back or turn back over itself.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To reflect (light, sight, etc.).
3. (transitive, obsolete) To reflect or mirror (an object), to show the image of.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To cast (beams of light) on something.
   • Шаблон:RQ:Marlowe Tamburlaine
5. To respond to a stimulus.

• Flexer ^{(alphagram eeflrx)}

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From Латински reflexus, first attested 1803.^[1]

reflex (feminine reflexa, masculine plural reflexos, feminine plural reflexes)

1. reflected

   Синоним: reflectit

2. (psychology) reflex

   acte reflex ― reflex action

3. (botany) reflexed
4. (linguistics) reflexive

   Синоним: reflexiu

reflex m (plural reflexos)

1. reflection (something that is reflected)

   Синоним: reflexió

2. reflex (an automatic response to a simple stimulus)

• “reflex” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “reflex” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “reflex” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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1. reflex

• See flexe

• reflex in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• reflex in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Borrowed from Француски réflexe, from Латински reflexus.

• МФА^(кључ): /reːˈflɛks/, /rəˈflɛks/

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• Хифенација: re‧flex
• Риме: -ɛks

reflex m (plural reflexen, diminutive reflexjes n)

1. reflex (automatic response by an organism)

   Синоним: reflexus

• reflexachtig
• reflexmatig

• → Indonesian: refleks

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From Немачки Reflex, from Француски réflexe.^[1]

• МФА^(кључ): [ˈrɛflɛks]
• Хифенација: ref‧lex
• Риме: -ɛks

reflex (plural reflexek)

1. reflex (an automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing)
2. (фотографија) reflection

   Синоними: visszfény, tükröződés

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	reflex	reflexek
accusative	reflexet	reflexeket
dative	reflexnek	reflexeknek
instrumental	reflexszel	reflexekkel
causal-final	reflexért	reflexekért
translative	reflexszé	reflexekké
terminative	reflexig	reflexekig
essive-formal	reflexként	reflexekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	reflexben	reflexekben
superessive	reflexen	reflexeken
adessive	reflexnél	reflexeknél
illative	reflexbe	reflexekbe
sublative	reflexre	reflexekre
allative	reflexhez	reflexekhez
elative	reflexből	reflexekből
delative	reflexről	reflexekről
ablative	reflextől	reflexektől

Possessive forms of reflex
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	reflexem	reflexeim
2nd person sing.	reflexed	reflexeid
3rd person sing.	reflexe	reflexei
1st person plural	reflexünk	reflexeink
2nd person plural	reflexetek	reflexeitek
3rd person plural	reflexük	reflexeik

• reflex in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN 9630535793

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From Француски réflexe, from Латински Reflex.

Шаблон:ro-adj

1. reflex

Шаблон:ro-decl-adj

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From Француски réflexe, first attested 1811.^[1]

reflex c

1. a reflex, a (quick and spontaneous) reaction
2. a reflector (tag, strip or band; carried by pedestrians and bicyclists to be visible from automobiles)

Declension of reflex
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	reflex	reflexen	reflexer	reflexerna
Genitive	reflex	reflexens	reflexers	reflexernas