reflexive meaning

Pronunciation:   "reflexive" in a sentence
Adjective: reflexive  ri'fleksiv
  1. Without volition or conscious control
    "sneezing is reflexive"
    - automatic, reflex 
  2. Referring back to itself
    - self-referent
Noun: reflexive  ri'fleksiv
  1. A personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's action affects the agent
    - reflexive pronoun

Derived forms: reflexives

See also: backward, involuntary, reflexiveness

Type of: personal pronoun

Encyclopedia: Reflexive


[Medicine]
adj : characterized by habitual and unthinking behavior; also : relating to or consisting of a reflex

[Computer]
<theory> A relation R is reflexive if, for all x, x R x.

Equivalence relations, pre-orders, partial orders and total orders are all reflexive.

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  1. clearly this relation is reflexive.
  2. a binary relation on a set that is reflexive and symmetric is called a compatible relation.
  3. some existent characterizations on sub-reflexive spaces
  4. reflexive generalized inverse operator of hilbert space
  5. cnm series bottom weld machines . the reflexive opto

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