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Definitions: Reflexive |
ReflexiveAdjective1. (physiology) without volition or conscious control; "the automatic shrinking of the pupils of the eye in strong light"; "a reflex knee jerk"; "sneezing is reflexive". 2. (grammar) referring back to itself. Noun1. A personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's action affects itself. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "reflexive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1906. (references) |
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Computing | Reflexive |
Math | A binary relation R for which a R a for all a. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Suppose X is a Banach space. We denote by X' its continuous dual, i.e. the space of all continuous linear maps from X to the base field (R or C). This is again a Banach space, as explained in the dual space article. So we can form the double dual X", the continuous dual of X'. There is a natural continuous linear transformation
Definition
defined by
As a consequence of the Hahn-Banach theorem, J is norm-preserving (i.e., ||J(x)||=||x|| ) and hence injective. The space X is called reflexive if J is bijective.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Reflexive space."
Synonyms: ReflexiveSynonyms: automatic (adj), reflex(a) (adj), self-referent (adj), reflexive pronoun (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Reflexive |
| English words defined with "reflexive": Betake ♦ Myself ♦ Oneself ♦ reflexive pronoun, reflexiveness, reflexivity ♦ Yourself. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "reflexive": equivalence relation ♦ Myself ♦ partial equivalence relation, partial ordering, pre-order ♦ reflexive domain, Reflexive transitive closure ♦ transitive closure. (references) |
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Economic History | France | Yet, while today's foreign investors face far less interference than was once the case, more than a decade of reforms has not entirely overcome a traditional preference for national control of business and a sometimes reflexive opposition to foreign investment. (references) |
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| "Reflexive" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.55% of the time. "Reflexive" is used about 58 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.55% | 56 | 45,296 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.72% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.72% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 58 | N/A |
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Expressions using "reflexive": reflexive domain ♦ reflexive pronoun ♦ reflexive transitive closure ♦ reflexive verb. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "reflexive": non-reflexive, self-reflexive. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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reflexive | 20 |
pronoun reflexive | 16 |
reflexive spanish verb | 13 |
entertainment reflexive | 12 |
reflexive verb | 10 |
game reflexive | 4 |
property reflexive | 3 |
reflexive ricochet | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "reflexive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vetvetor, folje vetvetore. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فعل إنعكاس, ملتو على نفسه, إنعكاسي (reflective). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | рефлексивен, възвратен глагол, възвратен местоимение, възвратен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 反射 (reflect, reflected, reflecting, reflection, reflex, reflexion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zvratný. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | refleksiv relation (reflexive relation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | reflexieve betrekking (reflexive relation), wederkerige betrekking (reflexive relation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | واکنشی (Reaction), بازتابی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | refleksiivinen, itsekohtainen (subjective). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | réfléchi (reflective, reflexively), verbe réfléchi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | reflexiv (reflexively). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αντανακλαστικόσ (reflecting, reflectional, reflex), αυτοπαθήσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | visszaható (reactive, reflective, retroactive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | riflessivo (reflective, thoughtful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 反射的 (reflecting, reflective), 再起 (comeback, rally, recovery, restoration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | さいき (bill collector, comeback, cruel creditor, equipment used in rituals, rally, recovery, recursive, restoration, talent, wisdom), は"しゃてき (reflecting, reflective). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | aa-illaght. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eflexiveray reflexo (clutter, glance, glimmer, glimpse, glints, glisten, Ray, reflection, reflective, reflex, reflexion, repercussion, sheen), reflexivo (reflective, speculative). (various references) reflexiv (reflective, thoughtful). (various references) возвратный (recurrent, revocable), возвратное местоимение. (various references) refleksivan (reflex), povratni oblik, povratan (recurrent, remittent, restorative, return). (various references) reflexivo (reflective, ruminative). (various references) reflexivt pronomen, reflexiv. (various references) dönüşlü yapı, dönüşlü fiil, dönüşlü, öze dönüşlü. (various references) duяdansyz (sudden). (various references) відігнутий (deflected), зворотний (back, backward, contrary, converse, counter, homeward, inverse, inverted, opposite, rearward, regressive, relapsing, retrogressive, reverse, reversionary). (various references) atblygol. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "reflexive": reflexively, reflexiveness, reflexivenesses, reflexives. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "reflexive": irreflexive. (additional references) | |
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"Reflexive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: reflexsive. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "reflexive" (pronounced rufle"ksiv) |
| 3 | -s i v | abrasive, abusive, adhesive, aggressive, allusive, apprehensive, aversive, coercive, cohesive, collusive, comprehensive, compulsive, conclusive, conducive, convulsive, corrosive, counteroffensive, decisive, defensive, depressive, derisive, discursive, dismissive, dispersive, divisive, effusive, elusive, erosive, evasive, excessive, exclusive, expansive, expensive, explosive, expressive, extensive, hypertensive, illusive, impassive, impressive, impulsive, incisive, inclusive, inconclusive, indecisive, inexpensive, inoffensive, intrusive, invasive, massive, missive, nonexclusive, nonresponsive, obsessive, obtrusive, offensive, oppressive, passive, pensive, permissive, persuasive, pervasive, possessive, progressive, recessive, reclusive, regressive, repressive, repulsive, responsive, submissive, subversive, successive, unimpressive, unobtrusive, unresponsive. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-f-i-l-r-v-x" | |
-2 letters: relieve. | |
-3 letters: eelier, eviler, feeler, ferlie, levier, liefer, liever, refeel, refile, reflex, releve, relief, relive, revile, veiler. | |
-4 letters: eerie, elver, ervil, exile, fever, filer, fiver, fixer, fleer, flier, levee, lever, lieve, lifer, liver, livre, reeve, refel, refix, reive, revel, rifle, vexer, vexil, viler. | |
-5 letters: ever, evil, feel, fere, file, fire, five, flee, flex, free, ilex, leer, lief, lier, life, lire, live, reef, reel, reif, riel, rife, rile, rive, veer, veil, vier, vile, virl. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-f-i-l-r-v-x" | |
+1 letter: reflexives. | |
+2 letters: irreflexive, reflexively. | |
+4 letters: reflexiveness, reflexivities. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 66 6C 65 78 69 76 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . ..-. .-.. . -..- .. ...- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01100110 01101100 01100101 01111000 01101001 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e f l e x i v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0066 006C 0065 0078 0069 0076 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)527172787190758871 |
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