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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
reflected
    adj 1: (especially of incident sound or light) bent or sent
           back; "reflected light"; "reflected heat"; "reflected
           glory" [ant: unreflected]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Reflected \Re*flect"ed\, a.
   1. Thrown back after striking a surface; as, reflected light,
      heat, sound, etc.
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   2. Hence: Not one's own; received from another; as, his glory
      was reflected glory.
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   3. Bent backward or outward; reflexed.
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