reflection

reflection is a 10-letter English word with 18 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of reflecting, or turning or sending back, or the state of being reflected. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 18 · 18 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of reflecting, or turning or sending back, or the state of being reflected.
2. noun. The return of rays, beams, sound, or the like, from a surface. See Angle of reflection, below.
3. noun. The reverting of the mind to that which has already occupied it; continued consideration; meditation; contemplation; hence, also, that operation or power of the mind by which it is conscious of its own acts or states; the capacity for judging rationally, especially in view of a moral rule or standard.
4. noun. Shining; brightness, as of the sun.
5. noun. That which is produced by reflection.
6. noun. An image given back from a reflecting surface; a reflected counterpart.
7. noun. A part reflected, or turned back, at an angle; as, the reflection of a membrane.
8. noun. Result of meditation; thought or opinion after attentive consideration or contemplation; especially, thoughts suggested by truth.
9. noun. Censure; reproach cast.
10. noun. The transference of an excitement from one nerve fiber to another by means of the nerve cells, as in reflex action. See Reflex action, under Reflex.
11. noun. the image of something as reflected by a mirror (or other reflective material)

    "he studied his reflection in the mirror"

    Synonyms: reflexion

12. noun. a likeness in which left and right are reversed

    Synonyms: reflexion

13. noun. the ability to reflect beams or rays

    Synonyms: reflectivity, reflexion

14. noun. a calm, lengthy, intent consideration

    Synonyms: contemplation, musing, reflexion, rumination, thoughtfulness

15. noun. a remark expressing careful consideration

    Synonyms: observation, reflexion

16. noun. expression without words

    "tears are an expression of grief"

    "the pulse is a reflection of the heart's condition"

    Synonyms: expression, manifestation, reflexion

17. noun. the phenomenon of a propagating wave (light or sound) being thrown back from a surface

    Synonyms: reflexion

18. noun. (mathematics) a transformation in which the direction of one axis is reversed

Synonyms

reflexion, reflectivity, contemplation, musing, rumination, thoughtfulness, observation, expression, manifestation

Common word forms

reflections, reflectional, reflectioning, reflectionless

Words from these letters

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