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How to pronounce “reflex”
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- Practice the English pronunciation of reflex with real speech in context.
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- Definition summary
- An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.
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How to pronounce reflex
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A Deep Dive Into “reflex”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.
- (linguistics) The descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter language.
- (linguistics, rare) The ancestor word corresponding to a descendant.
- The descendant of anything from an earlier time, such as a cultural myth.
- (chiefly photography) A reflection or an image produced by a reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
- [Adjective]
- Bent, turned back or reflected.
- Produced automatically by a stimulus.
- (geometry, of an angle) Having greater than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees.
- (painting) Illuminated by light reflected from another part of the same picture.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To bend back or turn back over itself.
- (transitive, obsolete) To reflect (light, sight, etc.).
- (transitive, obsolete) To reflect or mirror (an object), to show the image of.
- (transitive, obsolete) To cast (beams of light) on something.
- To respond to a stimulus.
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