Reflection is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for REFLECTION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an image given back by a reflecting surface
• the throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it
• an amount of light, heat, or sound that is reflected by a body or surface
• an image seen in a mirror or shiny surface
• a thing that is a consequence of or arises from something else
• a thing bringing discredit to someone or something
• serious thought or consideration
• an idea about something, especially one that is written down or expressed
• the conceptual operation of inverting a system or event with respect to a plane, each element being transferred perpendicularly through the plane to a point the same distance the other side of it.
• The act of reflecting, or turning or sending back, or the state of being reflected.
• The return of rays, beams, sound, or the like, from a surface. See Angle of reflection, below.
• 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.
• Shining; brightness, as of the sun.
• That which is produced by reflection.
• An image given back from a reflecting surface; a reflected counterpart.
• A part reflected, or turned back, at an angle; as, the reflection of a membrane.
• Result of meditation; thought or opinion after attentive consideration or contemplation; especially, thoughts suggested by truth.
• Censure; reproach cast.
• 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.
• a calm, lengthy, intent consideration
• the phenomenon of a propagating wave (light or sound) being thrown back from a surface
• expression without words
• a likeness in which left and right are reversed
• the image of something as reflected by a mirror (or other reflective material)
• (mathematics) a transformation in which the direction of one axis is reversed
• a remark expressing careful consideration
• the ability to reflect beams or rays
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an instance of reflecting; the return of light or sound waves from a surface

Words related to REFLECTION

reflectional17 reflections16

Words that contain REFLECTION

reflections16 irreflection17 reflectional17 irreflections18 antireflection19 reflectionless19 retroreflection20 retroreflections21

How to use REFLECTION in a sentence

• After mature reflection he realized that the great object of his efforts must be to prevent Alexandre from discovering Beauchene.
• An enterprise of this nature is not to be undertaken without reflection, like the smoking of a pipe.
• If not, she would travel by starlight and the wan reflection of the snow.
• Without reflection, certainly without analysis of what was best to do for my sister, myself or Mabel, I took up my action where it had been interrupted.
• The most judicious minds are sometimes led blindly by tradition and habit, rather than enlightened by reflection and experience.
• These thoughts, or ghosts of thoughts, flitted through my mind, as the carriage was passing along the narrow, dirty streets, and brought with them after-trains of reflection.
• Kent know the meaning of all this anxiety to buy in Western Pacific when the stock was going down day by day? Kent took time for reflection before he answered.
• His future bearing to this old barbarian required mature reflection.
• On reflection, we shall see that it is not so much persons as events that Mr.
• For with such a mother what perfect children they would be! This was always her final reflection.
• After a short interval of suspense I saw the reflection of a light and so knew my message had been received.
• Another moment of silence was followed by a brighter glare, as the sky in the south caught the reflection of the northern lightning.
• He had hardly time to make this reflection before two shots were heard.
• What is a Mirror? A body which exhibits the images of objects presented to it by reflection.
• What is a Telescope? An optical instrument, which serves for discovering and viewing distant objects, either directly by glasses, or by reflection.
• But rest assured that I do not offer it without mature reflection.
• On reflection, he concluded that the hidden property was not likely to be far from the spot on which he now was.
• Cooled lava would not give so intense a reflection.
• The best reflection is that there is a really good country to fall back upon when the prairies to the south are taken up.
• That aspect had been neglected neither by the popular instinct nor the priestly and philosophic reflection of Egypt, Greece, and Rome.
• Bates gave me my coffee in the library, as I wished to settle down to an evening of reflection without delay.
• Sense, because it is insignificant when made an object, is long neglected by reflection.
• The pictorial reflection of the world is not bound by the rigid mechanism of time.

Similar words containing FLEC without suffix tion and without prefix re

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