Reflecting

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Reflecting \Re*flect"ing\, a.
     1. Throwing back light, heat, etc., as a mirror or other
        surface.
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     2. Given to reflection or serious consideration; reflective;


        contemplative; as, a reflecting mind.
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     {Reflecting circle}, an astronomical instrument for measuring
        angless, like the sextant or Hadley's quadrant, by the
        reflection of light from two plane mirrors which it
        carries, and differing from the sextant chiefly in having
        an entire circle.
  
     {Reflecting galvanometer}, a galvanometer in which the
        deflections of the needle are read by means of a mirror
        attached to it, which reflects a ray of light or the image
        of a scale; -- called also {mirror galvanometer}.
  
     {Reflecting goniometer}. See under {Goniometer}.
  
     {Reflecting telescope}. See under {Telescope}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Reflect \Re*flect"\ (r?*fl?kt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Reflected}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Reflecting}.] [L. reflectere,
     reflexum; pref. re- re- + flectere to bend or turn. See
     {Flexible}, and cf. {Reflex}, v.]
     1. To bend back; to give a backwa?d turn to; to throw back;
        especially, to cause to return after striking upon any
        surface; as, a mirror reflects rays of light; polished
        metals reflect heat.
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              Let me mind the reader to reflect his eye on our
              quotations.                           --Fuller.
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              Bodies close together reflect their own color.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     2. To give back an image or likeness of; to mirror.
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              Nature is the glass reflecting God,
              As by the sea reflected is the sun.   --Young.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  reflecting
       adj : causing reflection or having a device that reflects; "a
             reflecting microscope"