What is reflection?

  • (noun): The image of something as reflected by a mirror (or other reflective material).
    Example: "He studied his reflection in the mirror"
    Synonyms: reflexion
    See also — Additional definitions below

Some articles on reflection, reflections:

Light Extraction In LEDs
... The large index difference makes the reflection quite substantial (per the Fresnel coefficients) ... The reflection is most commonly reduced by using a dome-shaped (half-sphere) package with the diode in the center so that the outgoing light rays strike the surface ... index of the semiconductor, to minimize back-reflection ...
List Of Casper's Scare School Characters - Main Characters - Ra
... able to convince Ra that he wasn't becoming a vampire when he pointed out Ra still had his reflection in a mirror ... convince he was Thatch's mindless minion when he couldn't see his reflection ... He was only able to finally be convince he wasn't a vampire after seeing his reflection in a pool of water inside the caverns ...
List Of Talib Kweli Songs - F
2004) "For the City" by Phil da Agony (The Aromatic Album, 2004) "For Women" by Reflection Eternal (Train of Thought, 2000) "Fortified Live" by Reflection Eternal ... Man (Soundbombing, 1997) "Fortified Live Remix" by Reflection Eternal remixed by Pish Posh featuring Mos Def and Mr ...
Reflection - Mathematics
... Point reflection, a reflection across a point Reflection (mathematics), a transformation of a space Reflection formula, a relation in a function Reflection group, a group generated by reflections ...
Lakes Of Titan - History - Observation of Specular Reflections
... Lacus at an altitude of 1900 km and was able to observe specular reflection in radar observations ... The conclusion drawn from the strength of the reflection was that the lake level did not vary by more than 3 mm over a first Fresnel zone reflecting area only ... July 2009, Cassini's Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) observed a specular reflection in 5 micron infrared light off a northern hemisphere body of liquid at 71° N, 337° W ...

More definitions of "reflection":

  • (noun): The phenomenon of a propagating wave (light or sound) being thrown back from a surface.
    Synonyms: reflexion
  • (noun): (mathematics) a transformation in which the direction of one axis is reversed.

Famous quotes containing the word reflection:

    “Fanny was not there! How she would have enjoyed the scene.... I could not but think of her, and in spite of my efforts to prevent, the unbidden tear would flow. Alas! I cannot feel the satisfaction some appear to do in the reflection that her eyes beheld the scene from the other world.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

    “The reflection of her here, and then there,
    Is another shadow, another evasion,
    Another denial. If she is everywhere,
    She is nowhere, to him.
    But this she has made.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man’s own worthiness from other men.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)