Definitions for Reflex

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Reflex re·flex

Spelling: [adjective, noun ree-fleks; verb ri-fleks]

IPA: /adjective, noun ˈri flɛks; verb rɪˈflɛks/

Reflex is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in Reflex (eeflrx).

Definitions for Reflex

noun

1. Physiology. Also called reflex act. movement caused by a reflex response. Also called reflex action. the entire physiological process activating such movement.
2. any automatic, unthinking, often habitual behavior or response.
3. the reflection or image of an object, as exhibited by a mirror or the like.
4. a reproduction, as if in a mirror.
5. a copy; adaptation.
6. reflected light, color, etc.
7. Historical Linguistics. an element in a language, as a sound, that has developed from a corresponding element in an earlier form of the language:
8. a reflex radio receiver.
9. a reflex camera.

adjective

1. Physiology. noting or pertaining to an involuntary response to a stimulus, the nerve impulse from a receptor being transmitted inward to a nerve center that in turn transmits it outward to an effector.
2. occurring in reaction; responsive.
3. cast back; reflected, as light, color, etc.
4. bent or turned back.
5. designating a radio apparatus in which the same circuit or part performs two functions.

verb (used with object)

1. to subject to a reflex process.
2. to bend, turn, or fold back.
3. to arrange in a reflex system.

Origin of Reflex

1500-10; Latin reflexus bent back, past participle of reflectere to reflect

Examples for Reflex

His hand was still resting on it so he picked it up by reflex.

The reflex is to say China is going to take us to the cleaners, right?

But I may also neglect this reflex standard and absolve me to myself.

Worry has become as automatic a reflex as breathing in your sleep.

Tears were a reflex response of the lachrymal glands to these events.

But pride in things wrought is no reflex of a completed task.

Then came the moment when a reflex born of a lifetime with a badge caused him to check the door window at the end of the car.

Some of our acts were reflex, some were chiefly instinctive, and some were volitional.

A reflex of the child's old joy in the Festivals glowed in his soul.

He is quite a bundle of stimulus and reflex, with no reflection.