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REFLECTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(especially of incident sound or light) bent or sent back
Example:
reflected glory
Classified under:
Similar:
echoic; echolike (like or characteristic of an echo)
mirrored (like or characteristic of a mirror image)
Antonym:
unreflected ((especially of incident sound or light) not turned back by physical reflection)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb reflect
Context examples:
Utterson reflected a little, looking in the fire.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The amount of dimming tells astronomers how much reflected light is given off by the planet.
(Hubble Captures Blistering Pitch-Black Planet, NASA)
What they found was “genome deterioration” that reflected the smaller population size.
(Genetic ‘Mutational Meltdown’ Doomed Woolly Mammoths, VOA)
The variety in the properties of gap junctions is reflected in the number of connexins, the family of proteins which form the junctions.
(Gap Junction, NCI Thesaurus)
As she walked, she reflected on what had passed.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
As she reflected more, she seemed but to feel it more.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Key to understanding the nature of the channels was the way Cassini's radar signal reflected off the bottoms of the features.
(Cassini Finds Flooded Canyons on Titan, NASA)
The Gemini data, obtained with the Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectrometer (NIFS), sampled reflected sunlight from a region immediately above the main visible cloud layer in Uranus' atmosphere.
(What Uranus Cloud Tops Have in Common With Rotten Eggs, NASA)
She watched, observed, reflected, and finally determined that this was not a case of fortitude or of resignation only.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
It measures how plants absorb and reflect light — the more infrared light is reflected, the healthier the vegetation.
(Tracking Deer by NASA Satellite, NASA)
