An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing. / (linguistics) The descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter language.

Bent, turned back or reflected. / Produced automatically by a stimulus. / (geometry, of an angle) Having greater than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees.

(transitive) To bend back or turn back over itself. / (transitive, obsolete) To reflect (light, sight, etc.). / (transitive, obsolete) To reflect or mirror (an object), to show the image of.

(grammar) Referring back to the subject, or having an object equal to the subject.

(grammar) A reflexive pronoun. / (grammar) A reflexive verb.

plural of reflex

In a reflexive manner. / By reflex, automatically, without conscious thought.

simple past tense and past participle of reflex

turned backwards

(neurophysiology) The outcome carried out by the motor effector as a result of the reflex arc.