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reflex

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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.

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reflex

/ˈɹiːflɛks/

noun

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.

I have a reflex to blink when something comes towards my eyes.

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An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.

For a while, I shall have to make a conscious effort to smile, nod, stand and perform the thousands of little gestures which constitute life on Earth, and then those gestures will become reflexes again.

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(linguistics) The descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter language.

Coordinate term: cognate

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(linguistics, rare) The ancestor word corresponding to a descendant.

The Middle Korean reflex for mey was mwoy 뫼 (mwoy)

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The descendant of anything from an earlier time, such as a cultural myth.

The superstition of the loup-garou, or werewolf, belongs to the folklore of most modern nations, and has its reflex in the story of "Little Red Riding-hood" and others.

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