reflection
noun
[ rɪˈflɛkʃ(ə)n ]
• the throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it.
• "the reflection of light"
Similar:
sending back,
throwing back,
casting back,
mirroring,
backscattering,
• serious thought or consideration.
• "he doesn't get much time for reflection"
Similar:
thought,
thinking,
consideration,
contemplation,
study,
deliberation,
pondering,
meditation,
musing,
rumination,
cogitation,
brooding,
agonizing,
cerebration,
• 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.
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French reflexion or late Latin reflexio(n- ), from Latin reflex- ‘bent back’, from the verb reflectere .
