Dictionary entry details
• REFLECTION (noun)
Meaning:
A calm lengthy intent consideration
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
thoughtfulness; rumination; reflection; musing; contemplation; reflexion
Hypernyms ("reflection" is a kind of...):
consideration (the process of giving careful thought to something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reflection"):
cogitation; study (attentive consideration and meditation)
meditation; speculation (continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature)
meditation ((religion) contemplation of spiritual matters (usually on religious or philosophical subjects))
introspection; self-contemplation; self-examination (the contemplation of your own thoughts and desires and conduct)
omphaloskepsis (contemplation of one's navel)
retrospect (contemplation of things past)
Meaning:
The phenomenon of a propagating wave (light or sound) being thrown back from a surface
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Synonyms:
reflexion; reflection
Hypernyms ("reflection" is a kind of...):
physical phenomenon (a natural phenomenon involving the physics of matter and energy)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reflection"):
flare (am unwanted reflection in an optical system (or the fogging of an image that is caused by such a reflection))
interreflection (reciprocal reflection between two reflecting surfaces)
virtual image (a reflected optical image (as seen in a plane mirror))
zodiacal light (a luminous tract in the sky; a reflection of sunlight from cosmic dust in the plane of the ecliptic; visible just before sunrise and just after sunset)
Meaning:
Expression without words
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
reflexion; expression; reflection; manifestation
Context examples:
tears are an expression of grief / the pulse is a reflection of the heart's condition
Hypernyms ("reflection" is a kind of...):
demo; demonstration (a visual presentation showing how something works)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reflection"):
lamentation; mourning (the passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief)
act (a manifestation of insincerity)
blowup; ebullition; effusion; gush; outburst (an unrestrained expression of emotion)
Meaning:
The image of something as reflected by a mirror (or other reflective material)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
reflection; reflexion
Context example:
he studied his reflection in the mirror
Hypernyms ("reflection" is a kind of...):
icon; ikon; image; picture (a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface)
Meaning:
A likeness in which left and right are reversed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
mirror image; reflection; reflexion
Hypernyms ("reflection" is a kind of...):
alikeness; likeness; similitude (similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things)
Meaning:
(mathematics) a transformation in which the direction of one axis is reversed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("reflection" is a kind of...):
transformation ((mathematics) a function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system)
Domain category:
math; mathematics; maths (a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement)
Meaning:
A remark expressing careful consideration
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
reflexion; observation; reflection
Hypernyms ("reflection" is a kind of...):
comment; remark (a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief)
Instance hyponyms:
Parkinson's law (C. Northcote Parkinson's cynical observation that work will expand so as to fill the time available for its completion)
Parkinson's law (C. Northcote Parkinson's cynical observation that the number of subordinates in an organization will increase linearly regardless of the amount of work to be done)
Meaning:
The ability to reflect beams or rays
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
reflectivity; reflexion; reflection
Hypernyms ("reflection" is a kind of...):
physical property (a property used to characterize physical objects)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reflection"):
echo; replication; reverberation; sound reflection (the persistence of a sound after its source has stopped)
