Reflex

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  • adjective. Being an involuntary action or response, such as a sneeze, blink, or hiccup.
  • adjective. Produced as an automatic response or reaction.
  • adjective. Bent, turned, or thrown back; reflected.
  • adjective. Reflexed.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. An involuntary response to a stimulus.
  • noun. A person's ability to respond to new or changing stimuli.
  • noun. An unlearned or instinctive response to a stimulus.
  • noun. A form or feature that reflects or represents an earlier, often reconstructed, form or feature having undergone phonetic or other change.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Something, such as light or heat, that is reflected.
  • noun. An image produced by reflection.
  • noun. A copy or reproduction.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Reflection; an image produced by reflection.
  • noun. A mere copy; an adapted form: as, a Middle Latin reflex of an Old French word.
  • noun. Light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade; hence, in painting, the illumination of one body or a part of it by light reflected from another body represented in the same piece. See reflected light, under reflected.
  • noun. Same as reflex action (which see, under reflex, a.).
  • To bend back; turn back.
  • To reflect; cast or throw, as light; let shine.
  • Thrown or turned backward; having a backward direction; reflective; reactive.
  • In painting, illuminated by light reflected from another part of the same picture. See reflected light, under reflected.
  • In oiol., bent back; reflexed.
  • A sensation supposed to be produced by the irritation of an efferent or motor nerve: but the existence of the phenomenon is denied.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive; introspective.
  • adjective. Produced in reaction, in resistance, or in return.
  • adjective. Of, pertaining to, or produced by, stimulus or excitation without the necessary intervention of consciousness.
  • adjective. any action performed involuntarily in consequence of an impulse or impression transmitted along afferent nerves to a nerve center, from which it is reflected to an efferent nerve, and so calls into action certain muscles, organs, or cells.
  • adjective. an excito-motory nerve. See Exito-motory.
  • noun. Reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
  • noun. An involuntary movement produced by reflex action.
  • noun. See Knee jerk, under Knee.
  • transitive verb. To reflect.
  • transitive verb. To bend back; to turn back.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.
  • noun. A corresponding phoneme in a daughter language.
  • adjective. Bent, turned back or reflected.
  • adjective. Produced automatically by a stimulus.
  • adjective. Having greater than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees.
  • verb. to bend, turn back or reflect
  • verb. to respond to a stimulus
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus
  • adjective. without volition or conscious control
  • Word Usage
    "Thank you click on any link with a Japanese girl in the title reflex"
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