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Reflect

reflect

1. To bend back.

2. To throw back, as of radiant energy from a surface.

3. To meditate; to think over a matter.

4. To send back a motor impulse in response to a sensory stimulus.

Origin: L. Re-flecto, pp. -flexus, to bend back


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