Definitions for reflector

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reflector re·flec·tor

Spelling: [ri-flek-ter]

IPA: /rɪˈflɛk tər/

Reflector is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 269 anagrams from letters in reflector (ceeflorrt).

Definitions for reflector

noun

1. a person or thing that reflects.
2. a body, surface, or device that reflects light, heat, sound, or the like.
3. reflecting telescope.
4. a substance, as graphite or heavy water, used to prevent the escape of neutrons from the core of a nuclear reactor.

Origin of reflector

First recorded in 1655-65; reflect + -or²

Examples for reflector

No, my lad, I'm not going to operate on you instanter, but I do want my reflector.

A refractor is also more convenient to handle than is a reflector.

A comparison has already been made in an article in the "reflector."

This was made with his five-and-a-half-foot Gregorian reflector.

With this reflector Herschel commenced a methodical piece of observation.

Not even the great Whernside reflector was able to pick it up.

Jumping up on a table, he fixed it to the top of the reflector over the gas-jet.

The lamp is fed by a cistern of oil at the back of the reflector.

The same eyepieces will serve for either the reflector or the refractor.

The reflector, on the other hand, forms the image at the focus of a concave mirror.