Meaning

5 senses
  1. An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.

    Reflex

    рефле́ксrefléks

    an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus

  2. The descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter language.

    Kontinuante, Fortsetzer

  3. (rare)The ancestor word corresponding to a descendant.

  4. The descendant of anything from an earlier time, such as a cultural myth.

  5. A reflection or an image produced by a reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.

    A reflex camera uses a mirror to reflect the image onto a ground-glass viewfinder.

Examples

20 sentences
  1. I have good reflexes.

    У мене добрі рефлекси. — deniko

    ruУ меня хорошая реакция. — marafon

    deIch habe gute Reflexe. — wolfgangth

  2. Tom has good reflexes.

    ruУ Тома хорошие рефлексы. — marafon

    deTom hat gute Reflexe. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. Tom has excellent reflexes.

    ruУ Тома отличные рефлексы. — marafon

  4. The boy has good reflexes.

    ruУ мальчика хорошие рефлексы. — Gruzilkin

  5. He has excellent reflexes.

    ruУ него отличные рефлексы. — Balamax

Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
automatic response:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
automatic response:
the descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter language:

Origin

From Late Latin reflexus, past participle of reflectere (“to bend back”), equivalent to re

From Late Latin reflexus, past participle of reflectere (“to bend back”), equivalent to re- + flex. Photography sense is from noun sense meaning “reflection”. Compare English reflect.

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