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flection
(encz) | flection, n: |
Flection
(gcide) | Flection \Flec"tion\, n. [See Flexion.]
1. The act of bending, or state of being bent.
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2. The variation of words by declension, comparison, or
conjugation; inflection.
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flection
(wn) | flection
n 1: the state of being flexed (as of a joint) [syn: flexure,
flection, flexion]
2: deviation from a straight or normal course [syn:
inflection, flection, flexion] |
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inflection
(mass) | inflection
- časovanie, ohýbanie, skloňovanie, flexia |
inflectional
(mass) | inflectional
- časovací, ohýbací, skloňovací, flektívny |
coefficient of reflection
(encz) | coefficient of reflection, n: |
deflection
(encz) | deflection,odchýlení pcernoch@imc.cas.czdeflection,odchylka pcernoch@imc.cas.czdeflection,odklonění pcernoch@imc.cas.czdeflection,ohyb pcernoch@imc.cas.czdeflection,ohybový pcernoch@imc.cas.czdeflection,prohýbání pcernoch@imc.cas.czdeflection,přehyb pcernoch@imc.cas.czdeflection,výchylka pcernoch@imc.cas.czdeflection,vychylovací pcernoch@imc.cas.czdeflection,vychylování pcernoch@imc.cas.czdeflection,vychylování paprsku pcernoch@imc.cas.cz |
deflection amplifier
(encz) | deflection amplifier,vychylovací zesilovač pcernoch@imc.cas.czdeflection amplifier,zesilovač rozkladu pcernoch@imc.cas.cz |
deflection angle
(encz) | deflection angle,úhel vychylování pcernoch@imc.cas.cz |
genuflection
(encz) | genuflection,pokleknutí n: Zdeněk Brož |
inflection
(encz) | inflection,flexe n: Zdeněk Brožinflection,ohýbání n: Zdeněk Brož |
inflectional
(encz) | inflectional,flektivní adj: Zdeněk Brožinflectional,ohýbací adj: Zdeněk Brož |
inflectional ending
(encz) | inflectional ending, n: |
inflectional morphology
(encz) | inflectional morphology, n: |
inflectional suffix
(encz) | inflectional suffix, n: |
interreflection
(encz) | interreflection, n: |
reflection
(encz) | reflection,odlesk n: Zdeněk Brožreflection,odraz n: Zdeněk Brožreflection,reflexe n: xkomczaxreflection,zrcadlení n: Zdeněk Brož |
reflection factor
(encz) | reflection factor, n: |
reflectional
(encz) | reflectional,odrazový adj: Zdeněk Brož |
reflections
(encz) | reflections,odrazy n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
retroflection
(encz) | retroflection, n: |
sound reflection
(encz) | sound reflection, n: |
space-reflection symmetry
(encz) | space-reflection symmetry, n: |
wind deflection
(encz) | wind deflection, n: |
x-ray reflection
(encz) | x-ray reflection,rentgenový odraz n: [fyz.] mamm |
Angle of reflection
(gcide) | Reflection \Re*flec"tion\ (r?*fl?k"sh?n), n. [L. reflexio: cf.
F. r['e]flexion. See Riflect.] [Written also reflexion.]
1. The act of reflecting, or turning or sending back, or the
state of being reflected. Specifically:
(a) The return of rays, beams, sound, or the like, from a
surface. See Angle of reflection, below.
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The eye sees not itself,
But by reflection, by some other things. --Shak.
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(b) The reverting of the mind to that which has already
occupied it; continued consideration; meditation;
contemplation; hence, also, that operation or power of
the mind by which it is conscious of its own acts or
states; the capacity for judging rationally,
especially in view of a moral rule or standard.
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By reflection, . . . I would be understood to
mean, that notice which the mind takes of its
own operations, and the manner of them, by
reason whereof there come to be ideas of these
operations in the understanding. --Locke.
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This delight grows and improves under thought
and reflection. --South.
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2. Shining; brightness, as of the sun. [Obs.] --Shak.
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3. That which is produced by reflection. Specifically:
(a) An image given back from a reflecting surface; a
reflected counterpart.
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As the sun water we can bear,
Yet not the sun, but his reflection, there.
--Dryden.
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(b) A part reflected, or turned back, at an angle; as, the
reflection of a membrane.
(c) Result of meditation; thought or opinion after
attentive consideration or contemplation; especially,
thoughts suggested by truth.
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Job's reflections on his once flourishing estate
did at the same time afflict and encourage him.
--Atterbury.
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4. Censure; reproach cast.
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He died; and oh! may no reflection shed
Its poisonous venom on the royal dead. --Prior.
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5. (Physiol.) The transference of an excitement from one
nerve fiber to another by means of the nerve cells, as in
reflex action. See Reflex action, under Reflex.
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Angle of reflection, the angle which anything, as a ray of
light, on leaving a reflecting surface, makes with the
perpendicular to the surface.
Angle of total reflection. (Opt.) Same as Critical angle,
under Critical.
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Syn: Meditation; contemplation; rumination; cogitation;
consideration; musing; thinking.
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Angle of total reflection
(gcide) | Reflection \Re*flec"tion\ (r?*fl?k"sh?n), n. [L. reflexio: cf.
F. r['e]flexion. See Riflect.] [Written also reflexion.]
1. The act of reflecting, or turning or sending back, or the
state of being reflected. Specifically:
(a) The return of rays, beams, sound, or the like, from a
surface. See Angle of reflection, below.
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The eye sees not itself,
But by reflection, by some other things. --Shak.
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(b) The reverting of the mind to that which has already
occupied it; continued consideration; meditation;
contemplation; hence, also, that operation or power of
the mind by which it is conscious of its own acts or
states; the capacity for judging rationally,
especially in view of a moral rule or standard.
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By reflection, . . . I would be understood to
mean, that notice which the mind takes of its
own operations, and the manner of them, by
reason whereof there come to be ideas of these
operations in the understanding. --Locke.
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This delight grows and improves under thought
and reflection. --South.
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2. Shining; brightness, as of the sun. [Obs.] --Shak.
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3. That which is produced by reflection. Specifically:
(a) An image given back from a reflecting surface; a
reflected counterpart.
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As the sun water we can bear,
Yet not the sun, but his reflection, there.
--Dryden.
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(b) A part reflected, or turned back, at an angle; as, the
reflection of a membrane.
(c) Result of meditation; thought or opinion after
attentive consideration or contemplation; especially,
thoughts suggested by truth.
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Job's reflections on his once flourishing estate
did at the same time afflict and encourage him.
--Atterbury.
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4. Censure; reproach cast.
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He died; and oh! may no reflection shed
Its poisonous venom on the royal dead. --Prior.
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5. (Physiol.) The transference of an excitement from one
nerve fiber to another by means of the nerve cells, as in
reflex action. See Reflex action, under Reflex.
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Angle of reflection, the angle which anything, as a ray of
light, on leaving a reflecting surface, makes with the
perpendicular to the surface.
Angle of total reflection. (Opt.) Same as Critical angle,
under Critical.
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Syn: Meditation; contemplation; rumination; cogitation;
consideration; musing; thinking.
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Circumflection
(gcide) | Circumflection \Cir`cum*flec"tion\, n.
See Circumflexion.
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Deflection
(gcide) | Deflection \De*flec"tion\, n. [L. deflexio, fr. deflectere: cf.
F. d['e]flexion.]
1. The act of turning aside, or state of being turned aside;
a turning from a right line or proper course; a bending,
esp. downward; deviation.
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The other leads to the same point, through certain
deflections. --Lowth.
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2. (Gunnery) The deviation of a shot or ball from its true
course.
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3. (Opt.) A deviation of the rays of light toward the surface
of an opaque body; inflection; diffraction.
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4. (Engin.) The bending which a beam or girder undergoes from
its own weight or by reason of a load.
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Deflectionization
(gcide) | Deflectionization \De*flec`tion*i*za"tion\, n.
The act of freeing from inflections. --Earle.
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Deflectionize
(gcide) | Deflectionize \De*flec"tion*ize\, v. t.
To free from inflections.
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Deflectionized languages are said to be analytic.
--Earle.
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Flection
(gcide) | Flection \Flec"tion\, n. [See Flexion.]
1. The act of bending, or state of being bent.
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2. The variation of words by declension, comparison, or
conjugation; inflection.
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Flectional
(gcide) | Flectional \Flec"tion*al\, a.
Capable of, or pertaining to, flection or inflection.
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A flectional word is a phrase in the bud. --Earle.
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genuflection
(gcide) | genuflection \gen`u*flec"tion\, genuflexion \gen`u*flex"ion\, n.
[F. g['e]nuflexion, fr. LL. genuflexio, fr. L. genu knee +
flexio a bending, fr. flectere, flexum, to bend. See Knee,
Flexible.]
The act of bending the knee, particularly in worship or
reverence. --Bp. Stillingfleet.
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Inflection
(gcide) | Inflection \In*flec"tion\, n. [L. inflexio : cf. F. inflexion.
See Inflect.] [Written also inflecxion.]
1. The act of inflecting, or the state of being inflected.
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2. A bend; a fold; a curve; a turn; a twist.
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3. A slide, modulation, or accent of the voice; as, the
rising and the falling inflection.
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4. (Gram.) The variation or change which words undergo to
mark case, gender, number, comparison, tense, person,
mood, voice, etc.
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5. (Mus.)
(a) Any change or modification in the pitch or tone of the
voice.
(b) A departure from the monotone, or reciting note, in
chanting.
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6. (Opt.) Same as Diffraction.
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Point of inflection (Geom.), the point on opposite sides of
which a curve bends in contrary ways.
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Inflectional
(gcide) | Inflectional \In*flec"tion*al\, a.
Of or pertaining to inflection; having, or characterized by,
inflection. --Max M["u]ller.
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Irreflection
(gcide) | Irreflection \Ir`re*flec"tion\, n.
Lack of reflection.
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Noninflectional
(gcide) | Noninflectional \Non`in*flec"tion*al\, a.
Not admitting of, or characterized by, inflection.
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Plane of reflection
(gcide) | Plane \Plane\, n. [F. plane, L. plana. See Plane, v. & a.]
1. (Geom.) A surface, real or imaginary, in which, if any two
points are taken, the straight line which joins them lies
wholly in that surface; or a surface, any section of which
by a like surface is a straight line; a surface without
curvature.
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2. (Astron.) An ideal surface, conceived as coinciding with,
or containing, some designated astronomical line, circle,
or other curve; as, the plane of an orbit; the plane of
the ecliptic, or of the equator.
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3. (Mech.) A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface,
used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate.
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4. (Joinery) A tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of
wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a
smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side
or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge
of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward,
with an apperture in front for the escape of shavings; as,
the jack plane; the smoothing plane; the molding plane,
etc.
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Objective plane (Surv.), the horizontal plane upon which
the object which is to be delineated, or whose place is to
be determined, is supposed to stand.
Perspective plane. See Perspective.
Plane at infinity (Geom.), a plane in which points
infinitely distant are conceived as situated.
Plane iron, the cutting chisel of a joiner's plane.
Plane of polarization. (Opt.) See Polarization.
Plane of projection.
(a) The plane on which the projection is made,
corresponding to the perspective plane in perspective;
-- called also principal plane.
(b) (Descriptive Geom.) One of the planes to which points
are referred for the purpose of determining their
relative position in space.
Plane of refraction or Plane of reflection (Opt.), the
plane in which lie both the incident ray and the refracted
or reflected ray.
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Point of inflection
(gcide) | Inflection \In*flec"tion\, n. [L. inflexio : cf. F. inflexion.
See Inflect.] [Written also inflecxion.]
1. The act of inflecting, or the state of being inflected.
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2. A bend; a fold; a curve; a turn; a twist.
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3. A slide, modulation, or accent of the voice; as, the
rising and the falling inflection.
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4. (Gram.) The variation or change which words undergo to
mark case, gender, number, comparison, tense, person,
mood, voice, etc.
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5. (Mus.)
(a) Any change or modification in the pitch or tone of the
voice.
(b) A departure from the monotone, or reciting note, in
chanting.
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6. (Opt.) Same as Diffraction.
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Point of inflection (Geom.), the point on opposite sides of
which a curve bends in contrary ways.
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Reflection
(gcide) | Reflection \Re*flec"tion\ (r?*fl?k"sh?n), n. [L. reflexio: cf.
F. r['e]flexion. See Riflect.] [Written also reflexion.]
1. The act of reflecting, or turning or sending back, or the
state of being reflected. Specifically:
(a) The return of rays, beams, sound, or the like, from a
surface. See Angle of reflection, below.
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The eye sees not itself,
But by reflection, by some other things. --Shak.
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(b) The reverting of the mind to that which has already
occupied it; continued consideration; meditation;
contemplation; hence, also, that operation or power of
the mind by which it is conscious of its own acts or
states; the capacity for judging rationally,
especially in view of a moral rule or standard.
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By reflection, . . . I would be understood to
mean, that notice which the mind takes of its
own operations, and the manner of them, by
reason whereof there come to be ideas of these
operations in the understanding. --Locke.
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This delight grows and improves under thought
and reflection. --South.
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2. Shining; brightness, as of the sun. [Obs.] --Shak.
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3. That which is produced by reflection. Specifically:
(a) An image given back from a reflecting surface; a
reflected counterpart.
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As the sun water we can bear,
Yet not the sun, but his reflection, there.
--Dryden.
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(b) A part reflected, or turned back, at an angle; as, the
reflection of a membrane.
(c) Result of meditation; thought or opinion after
attentive consideration or contemplation; especially,
thoughts suggested by truth.
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Job's reflections on his once flourishing estate
did at the same time afflict and encourage him.
--Atterbury.
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4. Censure; reproach cast.
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He died; and oh! may no reflection shed
Its poisonous venom on the royal dead. --Prior.
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5. (Physiol.) The transference of an excitement from one
nerve fiber to another by means of the nerve cells, as in
reflex action. See Reflex action, under Reflex.
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Angle of reflection, the angle which anything, as a ray of
light, on leaving a reflecting surface, makes with the
perpendicular to the surface.
Angle of total reflection. (Opt.) Same as Critical angle,
under Critical.
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Syn: Meditation; contemplation; rumination; cogitation;
consideration; musing; thinking.
[1913 Webster]Angle \An"gle\ ([a^][ng]"g'l), n. [F. angle, L. angulus angle,
corner; akin to uncus hook, Gr. 'agky`los bent, crooked,
angular, 'a`gkos a bend or hollow, AS. angel hook, fish-hook,
G. angel, and F. anchor.]
1. The inclosed space near the point where two lines meet; a
corner; a nook.
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Into the utmost angle of the world. --Spenser.
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To search the tenderest angles of the heart.
--Milton.
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2. (Geom.)
(a) The figure made by. two lines which meet.
(b) The difference of direction of two lines. In the lines
meet, the point of meeting is the vertex of the angle.
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3. A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
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Though but an angle reached him of the stone.
--Dryden.
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4. (Astrol.) A name given to four of the twelve astrological
"houses." [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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5. [AS. angel.] A fishhook; tackle for catching fish,
consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a
rod.
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Give me mine angle: we 'll to the river there.
--Shak.
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A fisher next his trembling angle bears. --Pope.
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Acute angle, one less than a right angle, or less than
90[deg].
Adjacent or Contiguous angles, such as have one leg
common to both angles.
Alternate angles. See Alternate.
Angle bar.
(a) (Carp.) An upright bar at the angle where two faces of
a polygonal or bay window meet. --Knight.
(b) (Mach.) Same as Angle iron.
Angle bead (Arch.), a bead worked on or fixed to the angle
of any architectural work, esp. for protecting an angle of
a wall.
Angle brace, Angle tie (Carp.), a brace across an
interior angle of a wooden frame, forming the hypothenuse
and securing the two side pieces together. --Knight.
Angle iron (Mach.), a rolled bar or plate of iron having
one or more angles, used for forming the corners, or
connecting or sustaining the sides of an iron structure to
which it is riveted.
Angle leaf (Arch.), a detail in the form of a leaf, more or
less conventionalized, used to decorate and sometimes to
strengthen an angle.
Angle meter, an instrument for measuring angles, esp. for
ascertaining the dip of strata.
Angle shaft (Arch.), an enriched angle bead, often having a
capital or base, or both.
Curvilineal angle, one formed by two curved lines.
External angles, angles formed by the sides of any
right-lined figure, when the sides are produced or
lengthened.
Facial angle. See under Facial.
Internal angles, those which are within any right-lined
figure.
Mixtilineal angle, one formed by a right line with a curved
line.
Oblique angle, one acute or obtuse, in opposition to a
right angle.
Obtuse angle, one greater than a right angle, or more than
90[deg].
Optic angle. See under Optic.
Rectilineal or Right-lined angle, one formed by two right
lines.
Right angle, one formed by a right line falling on another
perpendicularly, or an angle of 90[deg] (measured by a
quarter circle).
Solid angle, the figure formed by the meeting of three or
more plane angles at one point.
Spherical angle, one made by the meeting of two arcs of
great circles, which mutually cut one another on the
surface of a globe or sphere.
Visual angle, the angle formed by two rays of light, or two
straight lines drawn from the extreme points of an object
to the center of the eye.
For Angles of commutation, draught, incidence,
reflection, refraction, position, repose, fraction,
see Commutation, Draught, Incidence, Reflection,
Refraction, etc.
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reflection
(gcide) | Reflection \Re*flec"tion\ (r?*fl?k"sh?n), n. [L. reflexio: cf.
F. r['e]flexion. See Riflect.] [Written also reflexion.]
1. The act of reflecting, or turning or sending back, or the
state of being reflected. Specifically:
(a) The return of rays, beams, sound, or the like, from a
surface. See Angle of reflection, below.
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The eye sees not itself,
But by reflection, by some other things. --Shak.
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(b) The reverting of the mind to that which has already
occupied it; continued consideration; meditation;
contemplation; hence, also, that operation or power of
the mind by which it is conscious of its own acts or
states; the capacity for judging rationally,
especially in view of a moral rule or standard.
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By reflection, . . . I would be understood to
mean, that notice which the mind takes of its
own operations, and the manner of them, by
reason whereof there come to be ideas of these
operations in the understanding. --Locke.
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This delight grows and improves under thought
and reflection. --South.
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2. Shining; brightness, as of the sun. [Obs.] --Shak.
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3. That which is produced by reflection. Specifically:
(a) An image given back from a reflecting surface; a
reflected counterpart.
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As the sun water we can bear,
Yet not the sun, but his reflection, there.
--Dryden.
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(b) A part reflected, or turned back, at an angle; as, the
reflection of a membrane.
(c) Result of meditation; thought or opinion after
attentive consideration or contemplation; especially,
thoughts suggested by truth.
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Job's reflections on his once flourishing estate
did at the same time afflict and encourage him.
--Atterbury.
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4. Censure; reproach cast.
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He died; and oh! may no reflection shed
Its poisonous venom on the royal dead. --Prior.
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5. (Physiol.) The transference of an excitement from one
nerve fiber to another by means of the nerve cells, as in
reflex action. See Reflex action, under Reflex.
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Angle of reflection, the angle which anything, as a ray of
light, on leaving a reflecting surface, makes with the
perpendicular to the surface.
Angle of total reflection. (Opt.) Same as Critical angle,
under Critical.
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Syn: Meditation; contemplation; rumination; cogitation;
consideration; musing; thinking.
[1913 Webster]Angle \An"gle\ ([a^][ng]"g'l), n. [F. angle, L. angulus angle,
corner; akin to uncus hook, Gr. 'agky`los bent, crooked,
angular, 'a`gkos a bend or hollow, AS. angel hook, fish-hook,
G. angel, and F. anchor.]
1. The inclosed space near the point where two lines meet; a
corner; a nook.
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Into the utmost angle of the world. --Spenser.
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To search the tenderest angles of the heart.
--Milton.
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2. (Geom.)
(a) The figure made by. two lines which meet.
(b) The difference of direction of two lines. In the lines
meet, the point of meeting is the vertex of the angle.
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3. A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
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Though but an angle reached him of the stone.
--Dryden.
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4. (Astrol.) A name given to four of the twelve astrological
"houses." [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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5. [AS. angel.] A fishhook; tackle for catching fish,
consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a
rod.
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Give me mine angle: we 'll to the river there.
--Shak.
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A fisher next his trembling angle bears. --Pope.
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Acute angle, one less than a right angle, or less than
90[deg].
Adjacent or Contiguous angles, such as have one leg
common to both angles.
Alternate angles. See Alternate.
Angle bar.
(a) (Carp.) An upright bar at the angle where two faces of
a polygonal or bay window meet. --Knight.
(b) (Mach.) Same as Angle iron.
Angle bead (Arch.), a bead worked on or fixed to the angle
of any architectural work, esp. for protecting an angle of
a wall.
Angle brace, Angle tie (Carp.), a brace across an
interior angle of a wooden frame, forming the hypothenuse
and securing the two side pieces together. --Knight.
Angle iron (Mach.), a rolled bar or plate of iron having
one or more angles, used for forming the corners, or
connecting or sustaining the sides of an iron structure to
which it is riveted.
Angle leaf (Arch.), a detail in the form of a leaf, more or
less conventionalized, used to decorate and sometimes to
strengthen an angle.
Angle meter, an instrument for measuring angles, esp. for
ascertaining the dip of strata.
Angle shaft (Arch.), an enriched angle bead, often having a
capital or base, or both.
Curvilineal angle, one formed by two curved lines.
External angles, angles formed by the sides of any
right-lined figure, when the sides are produced or
lengthened.
Facial angle. See under Facial.
Internal angles, those which are within any right-lined
figure.
Mixtilineal angle, one formed by a right line with a curved
line.
Oblique angle, one acute or obtuse, in opposition to a
right angle.
Obtuse angle, one greater than a right angle, or more than
90[deg].
Optic angle. See under Optic.
Rectilineal or Right-lined angle, one formed by two right
lines.
Right angle, one formed by a right line falling on another
perpendicularly, or an angle of 90[deg] (measured by a
quarter circle).
Solid angle, the figure formed by the meeting of three or
more plane angles at one point.
Spherical angle, one made by the meeting of two arcs of
great circles, which mutually cut one another on the
surface of a globe or sphere.
Visual angle, the angle formed by two rays of light, or two
straight lines drawn from the extreme points of an object
to the center of the eye.
For Angles of commutation, draught, incidence,
reflection, refraction, position, repose, fraction,
see Commutation, Draught, Incidence, Reflection,
Refraction, etc.
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Superreflection
(gcide) | Superreflection \Su`per*re*flec"tion\, n.
The reflection of a reflected image or sound. [R.] --Bacon.
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angle of reflection
(wn) | angle of reflection
n 1: the angle between a reflected ray and a line perpendicular
to the reflecting surface at the point of incidence |
coefficient of reflection
(wn) | coefficient of reflection
n 1: the fraction of radiant energy that is reflected from a
surface [syn: coefficient of reflection, {reflection
factor}, reflectance, reflectivity] |
deflection
(wn) | deflection
n 1: a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal
way of judging or acting [syn: deflection, warp]
2: the amount by which a propagating wave is bent [syn:
deflection, deflexion, refraction]
3: the movement of the pointer or pen of a measuring instrument
from its zero position [syn: deflection, deflexion]
4: the property of being bent or deflected [syn: deflection,
deflexion, bending]
5: a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern); "a
diversion from the main highway"; "a digression into
irrelevant details"; "a deflection from his goal" [syn:
diversion, deviation, digression, deflection,
deflexion, divagation] |
genuflection
(wn) | genuflection
n 1: the act of bending the knees in worship or reverence [syn:
genuflection, genuflexion] |
inflection
(wn) | inflection
n 1: a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix)
to indicate a change in its grammatical function [syn:
inflection, inflexion]
2: the patterns of stress and intonation in a language [syn:
prosody, inflection]
3: deviation from a straight or normal course [syn:
inflection, flection, flexion]
4: a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone
of the voice is modified [syn: modulation, inflection] |
inflectional
(wn) | inflectional
adj 1: characterized by inflections indicating grammatical
distinctions; "inflectional morphology is used to
indicate number and case and tense and person etc." [ant:
derivational] |
inflectional ending
(wn) | inflectional ending
n 1: an inflection that is added at the end of a root word [syn:
inflectional ending, inflectional suffix] |
inflectional morphology
(wn) | inflectional morphology
n 1: the part of grammar that deals with the inflections of
words [syn: inflectional morphology, accidence] |
inflectional suffix
(wn) | inflectional suffix
n 1: an inflection that is added at the end of a root word [syn:
inflectional ending, inflectional suffix] |
interreflection
(wn) | interreflection
n 1: reciprocal reflection between two reflecting surfaces;
"there was interreflection between the two surfaces of the
lens" |
reflection
(wn) | reflection
n 1: a calm, lengthy, intent consideration [syn:
contemplation, reflection, reflexion, rumination,
musing, thoughtfulness]
2: the phenomenon of a propagating wave (light or sound) being
thrown back from a surface [syn: reflection, reflexion]
3: expression without words; "tears are an expression of grief";
"the pulse is a reflection of the heart's condition" [syn:
expression, manifestation, reflection, reflexion]
4: a likeness in which left and right are reversed [syn: {mirror
image}, reflection, reflexion]
5: the image of something as reflected by a mirror (or other
reflective material); "he studied his reflection in the
mirror" [syn: reflection, reflexion]
6: (mathematics) a transformation in which the direction of one
axis is reversed
7: a remark expressing careful consideration [syn:
observation, reflection, reflexion]
8: the ability to reflect beams or rays [syn: reflection,
reflexion, reflectivity] |
reflection factor
(wn) | reflection factor
n 1: the fraction of radiant energy that is reflected from a
surface [syn: coefficient of reflection, {reflection
factor}, reflectance, reflectivity] |
retroflection
(wn) | retroflection
n 1: a turning or tilting backward of an organ or body part;
"retroversion of the uterus" [syn: retroversion,
retroflection, retroflexion]
2: an articulatory gesture made by turning the tip of the tongue
back against the roof of the mouth [syn: retroflection,
retroflexion]
3: the act of bending backward [syn: retroflection,
retroflexion] |
sound reflection
(wn) | sound reflection
n 1: the repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the
sound waves; "she could hear echoes of her own footsteps"
[syn: echo, reverberation, sound reflection,
replication] |
space-reflection symmetry
(wn) | space-reflection symmetry
n 1: (physics) parity is conserved in a universe in which the
laws of physics are the same in a right-handed system of
coordinates as in a left-handed system [syn: parity,
conservation of parity, space-reflection symmetry,
mirror symmetry] |
wind deflection
(wn) | wind deflection
n 1: the deflection of a projectile resulting from the effects
of wind [syn: windage, wind deflection] |
reflection
(devil) | REFLECTION, n. An action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view
of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the
perils that we shall not again encounter.
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