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REFLECTING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Causing reflection or having a device that reflects
Example:
a reflecting microscope
Classified under:
Similar:
reflective (capable of physically reflecting light or sound)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb reflect
Context examples:
Researchers have found that NM-MRI signal is lower in the substantia nigra of people with Parkinson’s disease, reflecting the cell death that occurs in these patients.
(Neuromelanin-sensitive MRI identified as a potential biomarker for psychosis, National Institutes of Health)
There was no enrichment of a single predominant genetic pathway in the data, reflecting the complexity of blood pressure influences.
(The genetics of blood pressure, NIH)
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has observed a planet outside our solar system that looks as black as fresh asphalt because it eats light rather than reflecting it back into space.
(Hubble Captures Blistering Pitch-Black Planet, NASA)
Obvious extension of glands, nests or single cells extensively into stroma, including with apparent widening of the stroma (eosinophilic collagenous tissue), potentially reflecting desmoplasia, or into periprostatic fat
(Invasive Carcinoma of the Mouse Prostate Gland, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)
During wakefulness, however, all participants presented brain MEG responses reflecting the grouping of sounds into sets of 3 elements.
(Learning While Sleeping?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The qualifier provides additional detail regarding the nature of a concept property (e.g., a property effective date, or an indicator reflecting that the property is Current).
(NCI Thesaurus Property Qualifier, NCI Thesaurus)
A clinico-pathological entity reflecting the multiple polyps throughout the gastrointestinal tract created as a result of involvement by a non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
(Multifocal Lymphomatous Polyposis, NCI Thesaurus)
An index reflecting distensibility of elastic organ(s) defined as the change in volume per unit change in pressure (dV/dP).
(Index of Expandability, NCI Thesaurus)
Term describing the presence or absence of a certain gene across genomes of different species, reflecting the differential acquisition and loss of this gene along the various evolutionary lineages.
(Phylogenetic Pattern, NCI Thesaurus)
“No—no,” growled Mr. Barkis, reflecting about it.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
