Phrase Hound found 19 phrases and 14 compound words that contain reflection. The most common are listed below. Open reflection in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 19
- angle of reflectionThe angle between the perpendicular and a ray reflected from a surface
- self-reflectionThe act of self-reflecting.
- reflection nebulaA nebula that consists of dust which reflects starlight and appears blue in photographs.
- glide reflectionA transformation consisting of a reflection followed by a translation along the same line.
- angles of reflectionplural of angle of reflection: The angle between the perpendicular and a ray reflected from a surface
- reflection-in-actionThe skill of thinking critically mid-conflict, rather than after.
- total internal reflectionA phenomenon where light, instead of passing into a medium of a lower refractive index and refracting away from the normal, is completely reflected by the boundary between the two media because it approaches at an angle greater than or …
- reflection mappingA technique for approximating the reflections of the surrounding environment on complex surfaces, by storing a full 360-degree view of the environment in a texture using a specific mapping.
- reflection poolSynonym of reflecting pool: A water feature consisting of a shallow pool of water with a reflective surface, undisturbed by fountain jets.
- reflection poolsplural of reflection pool: A water feature consisting of a shallow pool of water with a reflective surface, undisturbed by fountain jets.
- reflection-on-actionThe skill of thinking critically post-conflict, rather than during it.
- oblique reflectionIn Euclidean geometry, an ordinary reflection not requiring that the reflection be performed using perpendiculars.
- complete internal reflectiontotal internal reflection
- Phong reflectionSynonym of Phong lighting: A technique for the local illumination of points on a surface, approximating the way that light is reflected in reality.
- reflection nebulaeplural of reflection nebula: A nebula that consists of dust which reflects starlight and appears blue in photographs.
- Fresnel reflectionThe reflection of light predicted by the Fresnel equations.
- reflection nebulasplural of reflection nebula: A nebula that consists of dust which reflects starlight and appears blue in photographs.
- reflection roomSynonym of reinforcement room: A room in which disruptive pupils are confined to work separately from the rest of the class.
- reflection roomsplural of reflection room: A room in which disruptive pupils are confined to work separately from the rest of the class.
Compound words 14
- antireflectionSynonym of antireflective: Preventing visible reflection.
- reflectionismThe view that cultural phenomena (literature, art, etc.) simply mirror the ideology of the dominant economic patterns of society.
- transflectionA type of spectroscopic measurement produced by transmitting light through a sample and reflecting it back through the sample onto a probe.
- pseudoreflectionAn invertible linear transformation of a finite-dimensional vector space such that it is not the identity transformation, has a finite (multiplicative) order, and fixes a hyperplane.
- reflectionlessThat does not involve reflection.
- superreflectionThe reflection of a reflected image, sound, magnetosonic wave, etc.
- hyporeflectionThe condition of being hyporeflective
- interreflectionThe illumination of an object by reflected light from other objects that are not light sources.
- metareflectionThe consideration of various different points of view.
- misreflectionThe act or result of misreflecting; a bad or wrong reflection.