What (who) is reflexive - definition
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Reflexive (disambiguation)
reflexive
A reflexive reaction or movement occurs immediately in response to something that happens. (FORMAL)
...that reflexive urge for concealment.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
• reflexively
He felt his head jerk reflexively.
ADV: usu ADV with v
Reflexive
·adj Implying censure.
II. Reflexive ·adj Bending or turned backward; reflective; having respect to something past.
III. Reflexive ·adj Having for its direct object a pronoun which refers to the agent or subject as its antecedent;
- said of certain verbs; as, the witness perjured himself; I bethought myself. Applied also to pronouns of this class; reciprocal; reflective.
reflexive
<theory> A relation R is reflexive if, for all x, x R x.
Equivalence relations, pre-orders, partial orders and
total orders are all reflexive.
(1999-01-28)
Wikipedia
Reflexive
Reflexive may refer to:
In fiction:
- Metafiction
In grammar:
- Reflexive pronoun, a pronoun with a reflexive relationship with its self-identical antecedent
- Reflexive verb, where a semantic agent and patient are the same
In mathematics and computer science:
- Reflexive relation, a relation where elements of a set are self-related
- Reflexive user interface, an interface that permits its own command verbs and sometimes underlying code to be edited
- Reflexive operator algebra, an operator algebra that has enough invariant subspaces to characterize it
- Reflexive space, a subset of Banach spaces
- Reflexive bilinear form, a bilinear form for which the order of a pair of vectors does not affect whether it evaluates to zero.
In biology
- Reflexive antagonism, the phenomenon by which muscles with opposing functions tend to antagonistically inhibit each other.
Other uses:
- Reflexive Entertainment, a video game developer
- Reflexivity (social theory), a concept in social theory relating to the capacity of an individual agent to act against influences of socialization and social structure
Pronunciation examples for reflexive
1. it's reflexive.
Welcome to Night Vale _ Cecil Baldwin _ Talks at Google
2. reflexive dance capability,
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3. from your reflexive sense.
The Ruin of Angels - A Novel of the Craft Sequence _ Max Gladstone _ Talks at Google
4. In fact, entirely reflexive.
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5. So it was pretty reflexive.
Beat the Reaper _ Josh Bazell _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of reflexive
1. Such concerns do not reflect the Republican indictment of her as a reflexive San Francisco liberal.
2. President, if we could return to the reflexive vein we were in a little while ago.
3. This question should not be posed only to Palestinians, but should also be reflexive.
4. Alongside these two concepts can be added another: a repeated reflexive, instinctive response by a supplanting immigrant society.
5. It is merely to argue that legislation on new security measures should be reasoned, rather than reflexive.