reflex

[re·flex]

A reflex is an action your body does without your thinking about it, like sneezing, or jumping a little when you dream you’re falling. If you suddenly catch a ball before it crashes into a window, you have quick reflexes.

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Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive; introspective.

Noun
an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus

a.
Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive; introspective.

a.
Produced in reaction, in resistance, or in return.

a.
Of, pertaining to, or produced by, stimulus or excitation without the necessary intervention of consciousness.

n.
Reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.

n.
An involuntary movement produced by reflex action.

v. t.
To reflect.

v. t.
To bend back; to turn back.

Reflex

Re"flex (r?"fl?ks), a. [L. reflexus, p. p. of reflectere: cf. F. r'82flexe. See Reflect.] 1. Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive; introspective.

The reflex act of the soul, or the turning of the intellectual eye inward upon its own actions.

2. Produced in reaction, in resistance, or in return. 3. (Physiol.) Of, pertaining to, or produced by, stimulus or excitation without the necessary intervention of consciousness. Reflex action (Physiol.), any action performed involuntarily in consequence of an impulse or impression transmitted along afferent nerves to a nerve center, from which it is reflected to an efferent nerve, and so calls into action certain muscles, organs, or cells. -- Reflex nerve (Physiol.), an excito-motory nerve. See Exito-motory.

Reflex

Re"flex (r?"fl?ks; formerly r?*fl?ks"), n. [L. reflexus a bending back. See Reflect.] 1. Reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.

Yon gray is not the morning's eye, 'Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow.

On the depths of death there swims The reflex of a human face.

2. (Physiol.) An involuntary movement produced by reflex action. Patellar reflex. See Knee jerk, under Knee.

Reflex

Re*flex" (r?*fl?ks"), v. t. [L. reflexus, p. p. of reflectere. See Reflect.] 1. To reflect. [Obs.] Shak. 2. To bend back; to turn back. J. Gregory.

Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive; introspective.

Reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.

To reflect.

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Usage Examples

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

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Other Usage Examples

What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.