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reflex

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English

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Etymology

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From Late Latin reflexus, past participle of reflectere (“to bend back”), equivalent to re- +‎ flex. Photography sense is from noun sense meaning “reflection”. Compare English reflect.

Pronunciation

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  • (noun, adjective) IPA(key): /ˈɹiːflɛks/
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  • IPA(key): (verb) /ɹɪˈflɛks/
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Noun

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reflex (plural reflexes)

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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 May 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.
    Antonym: etymon
    Coordinate term: cognate
  3. (linguistics, rare) The ancestor word corresponding to a descendant.
  4. The descendant of anything from an earlier time, such as a cultural myth.
    • 1898, Christian Brinton, 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 photography) A reflection or an image produced by a 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.

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Adjective

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reflex (comparative more reflex, superlative most reflex)

  1. Bent, turned back or reflected.
    • a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
      the reflex act of the soul, or the turning of the intellectual eye inward upon its own actions
  2. Produced automatically by a stimulus.
    • 1984 February 4, Mike Riegle, “Consent and Violence”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 28, page 6:
      It's easier to focus on the particular relationship or object (as in 'pornography', for example) than on the sexist (racist, ageist, etc.) attitudes that generate the almost reflex violence taught in our schools, churches, legal processes, families, mass entertainment, and advertising propaganda.
  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, 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.

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Verb

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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.
    • c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene i:
      The ſpring is hindered by your ſmoothering hoſt,
      For neither rain can fall vpon the earth,
      Nor Sun reflexe his vertuous beames thereon.
      The ground is mantled with ſuch multitudes.
  5. To respond to a stimulus.

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Catalan

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin reflexus. First attested in 1803.[1]

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Adjective

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

  1. reflected
    Synonym: reflectit
  2. (psychology) reflex
    acte reflex ― reflex action
  3. (botany) reflexed
  4. (linguistics) reflexive
    Synonym: reflexiu

Noun

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reflex m (plural reflexos)

  1. reflection (something that is reflected)
    Synonym: reflexió
  2. reflex (an automatic response to a simple stimulus)

References

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  1. ^ “reflex”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

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Czech

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Etymology

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Borrowed from German Reflex, from French réflexe, from Latin reflexus.

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Noun

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reflex m inan

  1. reflex

Declension

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Declension of reflex (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative reflex reflexy
genitive reflexu reflexů
dative reflexu reflexům
accusative reflex reflexy
vocative reflexe reflexy
locative reflexu reflexech
instrumental reflexem reflexy

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French réflexe, from Latin reflexus.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /reːˈflɛks/, /rəˈflɛks/
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  • Hyphenation: re‧flex
  • Rhymes: -ɛks

Noun

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reflex m (plural reflexen, diminutive reflexjes n)

  1. reflex (automatic response by an organism)
    Synonym: reflexus

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Descendants

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  • → Indonesian: refleks

Hungarian

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Etymology

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From German Reflex, from French réflexe.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈrɛflɛks]
  • Hyphenation: ref‧lex
  • Rhymes: -ɛks

Noun

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reflex (plural reflexek)

  1. reflex (an automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing)
  2. (photography) reflection
    Synonyms: visszfény, tükröződés

Declension

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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
non-attributive
possessive – singular 		reflexé reflexeké
non-attributive
possessive – plural 		reflexéi reflexekéi
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

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References

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  1. ^ István Tótfalusi (2005), Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára [A Storehouse of Foreign Words: An Explanatory and Etymological Dictionary of Foreign Words], Budapest: Tinta, →ISBN

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  • reflex in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French réflexe, from Latin Reflex.

Adjective

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reflex m or n (feminine singular reflexă, masculine plural reflecși, feminine/neuter plural reflexe)

  1. reflex

Declension

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Declension of reflex
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative 		indefinite reflex reflexă reflecși reflexe
definite reflexul reflexa reflecșii reflexele
genitive-
dative 		indefinite reflex reflexe reflecși reflexe
definite reflexului reflexei reflecșilor reflexelor

Swedish

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en reflex (sense 2)

Etymology

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From French réflexe, first attested 1811.[1]

Noun

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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)
  3. a reflex (reflection)

Declension

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Declension of reflex
nominative genitive
singular indefinite reflex reflex
definite reflexen reflexens
plural indefinite reflexer reflexers
definite reflexerna reflexernas

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References

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  1. ^ “reflex”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
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