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Reflector   /rɪflˈɛktər/   Listen
noun
Reflector  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, reflects.
2.
(Physics)
(a)
Something having a polished surface for reflecting light or heat, as a mirror, a speculum, etc.
(b)
A reflecting telescope.
(c)
A device for reflecting sound.





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"Reflector" Quotes from Famous Books



... been the first to discover the ship, while she was up in the light-house tower polishing the reflector. She at once descended the steep stairs and sent off the boys to the village to give ...
— The Junior Classics • Various
... as if she was going to knock the ball off the Pantheon or the cross off the Invalides. She hovered over the two minarets of the Trocadero and the metal tower of the Champ de Mars, where the enormous reflector was inundating the whole capital ...
— Rubur the Conqueror • Jules Verne
... either conical masses or nebulae of different magnitudes and degrees of condensation. This is interspersed with nebulous spots, not resolvable into stars, but which are probably 'star dust', appearing only as a general radiance upon the telescopic field of a twenty-feet reflector, and forming a luminous ground on which other objects of striking and indescribable form are scattered. In no other portion of the heavens are so many nebulous and stellar masses thronged together in an equally small space. Nubecula minor is much less ...
— COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 • Alexander von Humboldt
... placed the little black disc close to the center on the top of the reflector. "Can you see that from ...
— Constance Dunlap • Arthur B. Reeve
... over the wash-stand. The glass was greenish in hue and wavy in lines, but it looked like a reflector and so it remained in position. An enameled basin and earthen jug did duty for toilet purposes. The plain deal chairs were decorated with crocheted tidies—one tied to the back of each chair. And last, but not least, ...
— Polly of Pebbly Pit • Lillian Elizabeth Roy


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