REFLECTIVE


Meaning of REFLECTIVE in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

more

Its special factors should be recognised and it should have a regional banding system more reflective of its house prices.

One can easily become disenchanted with over-professionalized people who are undoubtedly unworthy when subjected to the judgment of more reflective scholars.

It deepens us and makes us more reflective as people.

La Russa acknowledged in a more reflective moment.

He is also a more reflective animal than the hard man of the past.

In a more reflective mood, the Marxist explanation turned out to be almost vacuous, in detail.

However, there are more reflective tasks: for example, interviewing.

I am unstructured where my father is more reflective .

■ NOUN

surface

The improvements were a little disappointing and five years on, corrosion has eaten well into the reflective surfaces .

The confined space and the many hard, reflective surfaces make a car interior perhaps the ultimate challenge for audio designers.

As the name suggests, this consists of bouncing the light off reflective surfaces instead of aiming it directly at the subject.

This is produced by reflective surfaces such as, walls, ceilings, furniture and even people.

These surfaces should be white in colour; if they are not suitable, some other reflective surface can be used instead.

The glass is so smeared that it hardly counts as a reflective surface .

The boundaries between the materials create reflective surfaces within the crystal.

It is based on encoding multimedia information on the reflective surface of a silvered 12-inch disc.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a reflective and soft-spoken man

Bicyclists should wear reflective vests at night.

It's important to wear special reflective clothing when riding a bike.

Survival bags are made of reflective material to prevent heat loss.

The alloy, when polished, is highly reflective .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Its special factors should be recognised and it should have a regional banding system more reflective of its house prices.

She looked at me with a reflective , appraising look.

The reflective process often involves work in other curriculum areas, be it discussion, writing, artwork, computer programming.

The confined space and the many hard, reflective surfaces make a car interior perhaps the ultimate challenge for audio designers.

The work crews and engineers stand in clusters, their yellow reflective safety jackets glowing eerily amid the dusky floodlighting.

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