English Explanatory Dictionary

transflection

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A type of spectroscopic measurement produced by transmitting light through a sample and reflecting it back through the sample onto a probe.
noun
  1. A transfiguration consisting of reflection about a line combined with translation along the same line.
noun
  1. The coining of a new word by changing of the inflectional pattern of an existing word.

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-transflection.wav

Word forms

transflection transflections transflexion

Etymology

Blend of transmission + reflection.

Synonyms

glide reflection
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