reflexive
[ri-flek-siv]
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adjective
Grammar.
- (of a verb) taking a subject and object with identical referents, as shave in I shave myself.
- (of a pronoun) used as an object to refer to the subject of a verb, as myself in I shave myself.
reflex; responsive.
able to reflect; reflective.
Mathematics.
- noting a relation in which each element is in relation to itself, as the relation “less than or equal to.”Compare antireflexive.
- (of a vector space) having the property that the dual space of the dual space of the given vector space equals the given vector space.
noun
Grammar. a reflexive verb or pronoun.
Origin of reflexive
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There is an interesting discussion of the reflexiveness of infinite wholes in the first of Galileo's Dialogues on Motion.
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