reflecting
    adj 1: causing reflection or having a device that reflects; "a
           reflecting microscope"

Reflecting \Re*flect"ing\, a.
   1. Throwing back light, heat, etc., as a mirror or other
      surface.
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   2. Given to reflection or serious consideration; reflective;
      contemplative; as, a reflecting mind.
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   Reflecting circle, an astronomical instrument for measuring
      angless, like the sextant or Hadley's quadrant, by the
      reflection of light from two plane mirrors which it
      carries, and differing from the sextant chiefly in having
      an entire circle.

   Reflecting galvanometer, a galvanometer in which the
      deflections of the needle are read by means of a mirror
      attached to it, which reflects a ray of light or the image
      of a scale; -- called also mirror galvanometer.

   Reflecting goniometer. See under Goniometer.

   Reflecting telescope. See under Telescope.
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Reflect \Re*flect"\ (r?*fl?kt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   Reflected; p. pr. & vb. n. Reflecting.] [L. reflectere,
   reflexum; pref. re- re- + flectere to bend or turn. See
   Flexible, and cf. Reflex, v.]
   1. To bend back; to give a backwa?d turn to; to throw back;
      especially, to cause to return after striking upon any
      surface; as, a mirror reflects rays of light; polished
      metals reflect heat.
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            Let me mind the reader to reflect his eye on our
            quotations.                           --Fuller.
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            Bodies close together reflect their own color.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   2. To give back an image or likeness of; to mirror.
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            Nature is the glass reflecting God,
            As by the sea reflected is the sun.   --Young.
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