reflex

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.
2. The descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter language.
3. (rare) The ancestor word corresponding to a descendant.
4. The descendant of anything from an earlier time, such as a cultural myth.
5. A reflection or an image produced by a reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.

Adj

1. Bent, turned back or reflected.
2. Produced automatically by a stimulus.
3. Having greater than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees.
4. Illuminated by light reflected from another part of the same picture.

Verb

1. (transitive) To bend back or turn back over itself.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To reflect (light, sight, etc.).
3. (obsolete, transitive) To reflect or mirror (an object), to show the image of.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To cast (beams of light) on something.
5. To respond to a stimulus.

Conceptos

reflejo

acto reflejo

reacción fisiológica

reflejo incondicionado

reflejo innato

reflejo instintivo

automático

respuesta refleja

acción refleja

Opuesto a

etymon

Sinónimos

reflection

reflexive

reflex action

involuntary

reflect

automatic

reflected light

mirror

🪞

reflexion

reaction

innate reflex

instinctive reflex

physiological reaction

reflex response

unconditioned reflex

gleam

reverberation

return

specular

reflected

inborn reflex

unintended

unintentional

image

moving

nonvoluntary

reactions

recurved

reflecting

reflectional

reflective

reflex camera

reluctant

replicate

response

reversion

traffic

turnback

unwilled

unwilling

unwitting

inverted image

refective

retroflection

motivation

unvoluntary

bent as a two bob

actuation

bowbent

ambulation

Traducciones

riflesso

réflexe

reflexo

Reflex

refleks

reflex

ακούσια κίνηση

reflex

Spiegelung

akis

tepke

αντανακλαστική κίνηση

αντανακλαστικό

ters

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈɹiːflɛks/

Etimología (Inglés)

Cognado con inglés: reflect

In summary

From Late Latin reflexus, past participle of reflectere (“to bend back”), equivalent to re- + flex. Photography sense is from noun sense meaning “reflection”. Compare English reflect.