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For a while, I shall have to make a conscious effort to smile, nod, stand and perform the thousands of little gestures which constitute life on Earth, and then those gestures will become reflexes again.
2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
He met Luis Suarez's cross at the far post, only for Chelsea keeper Petr Cech to show brilliant reflexes to deflect his header on to the bar. Carroll turned away to lead Liverpool's insistent protests that the ball had crossed the line but referee Phil Dowd and assistant referee Andrew Garratt waved play on, with even a succession of replays proving inconclusive.
The descendant of anything from an earlier time, such as a culturalmyth.
1898, Christian Brinton, The Century:
The superstition of the loup-garou, or werewolf, belongs to the folklore of most modern nations, and has its reflex in the story of "Little Red Riding-hood" and others.
(chiefly photography)Reflection or an image produced by reflection. The light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
a.1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery,, published 1677, →OCLC:
the reflex act of the soul, or the turning of the intellectual eye inward upon its own actions
Produced automatically by a stimulus.
(geometry, of an angle) Having greater than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees.
1878, James Maurice Wilson, Elementary Geometry, MacMillan, page 10:
A polygon is said to be convex when no one of its angles is reflex.
1895, David Eugen Smith, Wooster Woodruff Bernan, New Plane and Solid Geometry, page 7:
An angle less than a right angle is said to be acute; one greater than a right angle but less than a straight angle is said to be obtuse; one greater than a straight angle but less than a perigon is said to be reflex or convex.
1958, Howard Fehr, “On Teaching Dihedral Angle and Steradian” in The Mathematics Teacher, v 51, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, page 275:
If the reflex region is the interior of the angle, the dihedral angle is reflex.
1991, B. Falcidieno et al., “Configurable Representations in Feature-based Modelling”, in Eurographics '91: Proceedings, North-Holland, page 145:
A reflex edge of a polyhedron is an edge where the inner dihedral angle subtended by two incident faces is greater than 180°.
2001, Esther M. Arkin et al., “On the Reflexivity of Point Sets”, in Algorithms and data structures: 7th International Workshop, WADS 2001: Proceedings, Springer, page 195:
We say that an angle is convex if it is not reflex.
2004, Ana Paula Tomás and António Leslie Bajuelos, “Quadratic-Time Linear-Space Algorithms Generating Orthogonal Polygons with a Given Number of Vertices”, in Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2004 Proceedings, part 3, Springer, page 117:
P denotes a polygon and r the number of reflex vertices.
(painting) Illuminated by light reflected from another part of the same picture.
The ſpring is hindered by your ſmoothering hoſt, For neither rain can fall vpon the earth, Nor Sun reflexe his vertuous beames thereon. The ground is mantled with ſuch multitudes.
reflex in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN