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reflected, ppl. a.|rɪˈflɛktɪd|
[f. reflect v.]
1. Bent, folded, or turned back; recurved.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vi. xxiii. 227 His haire for more ornament long hee wore in reflected curles vpon his shoulders. 1861Hulme tr. Moquin-Tandon ii. iii. ii. 84 A thick peristome, terminating in an abrupt or reflected margin.
2. a. Turned, cast, or thrown back; sent in a reverse direction; coming indirectly. In later use chiefly transf. from b.
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. II. 299 Þe first siȝt is even siȝt, as man seeþ þing þat is bifore him; þe secounde siȝt is reflectid whan it is turned aȝen bi myrour. 1656tr. Hobbes' Elem. Philos. iii. (1839) 275 If two strait lines, which fall upon another strait line, be parallel, their reflected lines shall be also parallel. 1773Life N. Frowde 116 You can feel no Anxiety..but what must assail my Bosom, with reflected Force. 1826Lamb Elia Ser. ii. Wedding, On these occasions I am sure to be in good-humour for a week or two after, and enjoy a reflected honey-moon. 1840Penny Cycl. XVI. 153/1 The motions that result from the reflected influence evince design. 1875McLaren Serm. Ser. ii. ii. 30 The prayer that prevails is a reflected promise.
b. esp. of light, colour, or heat; also used of other waves and radiations Cf. reflect v. 4 b.
1667Milton P.L. iii. 723 That Globe whose hither side With light from hence, though but reflected, shines. 1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, Reflected Ray, or Ray of Reflection, is that whereby the Reflection is made upon the Surface of a reflecting Body. 1746–7Hervey Medit. (1818) 142 Beautified..with colourings of reflected crimson. 1794J. Hutton Philos. Light, etc. 109 Another term for that which has been called obscure or reflected heat. 1827Pollok Course T. x, In native and reflected blaze of bright Celestial equipage. 1830Encycl. Metrop. II. 753 A tendency in the reflected Sound to confine itself to the direction which a ray of Light regularly reflected at the echoing surface would follow. 1862R. Mallet First Princ. Observational Seismol. II. iii. xvi. 356 Ottajano and Somma..sustained the subordinate shock, of reflected waves from the N.E. flank of Vesuvius. 1869Tyndall in Fortn. Rev. 1 Feb. 237 The blue light of the sky is all reflected light. 1909Proc. R. Soc. A. LXXXII. 497 For β-particles the number of reflected particles..decreases with the atomic weight of the reflector. 1925Year-bk. Wireless Telegr. & Telephony 13 A system of telegraphy employing reflected beams was not only possible, but possessed very many advantages. 1960[see reflect v. 4 b]. 1975Leopold & Asher Fund. Abdominal & Pelvic Ultrasonography p. vii, One can obtain information from all areas of the body by suitably observing the reflected ultrasound pulses.
†c. Of dialling: (see quot.). Obs. rare—0.
1710J. Harris Lex. Techn. II, Reflected Dialling is the Art of describing..all the Furniture of Dials on such Places as the Suns direct Rays can never come to directly, but only by the help of some reflecting Surface.
†d. Gram. = reflexive 5.
1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v. Verb, [A verb is called] reflected, where the action returns upon the agent.
3. Mirrored, imaged on some surface.
1784Cowper Task i. 702 A lucid mirror, in which Nature sees All her reflected features. 1818Shelley Rev. Islam i. xxii, That strange boat..did sway Amid reflected stars that in the waters lay. 1886Sheldon tr. Flaubert's Salammbȯ 12 The reflected torch flames quivered to the very bottom.
Hence reˈflectedly adv., reˈflectedness.
1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v. Mirror, The object A radiates reflectedly, in the same manner as it would do directly. 1863S. Wilberforce Ess. (1874) I. 323 He had neither the theological learning nor the calm sagacious reflectedness necessary for working out..such tangled threads. |