(n.) A looking-glass or a speculum; any glass or polished substance that forms images by the reflection of rays of light.
(n.) That which gives a true representation, or in which a true image may be seen; hence, a pattern; an exemplar.
(n.) See Speculum.
(v. t.) To reflect, as in a mirror.
Example Sentences:
(1) When the concentration of thrombin or fibrinogen was altered systematically, mu T and mup were found to mirror each other except when the fibrinogen concentration was increased at low thrombin concentrations.
(2) The results mirrored clinical improvements in 209 patients (97%).
(3) It was an artwork that fired the imaginations of 2 million visitors who played with, were provoked by and plunged themselves into the curious atmosphere of The Weather Project , with its swirling mist and gigantic mirrors that covered the hall's ceiling.
(4) These differences in central connectivity mirror the reports on behavioral dissociation of the facial and vagal gustatory systems.
(5) Evidence of the industrial panic surfaced at Digital Britain when Sly Bailey, the chief executive of Trinity Mirror, suggested that national newspaper websites that chased big online audiences have "devalued news" , whatever that might mean.
(6) Application of a mirror at the serosal surface opposite to the probe, resulted in an average increase of the output signal by 50% using the large fibre diameter probe, whereas no increase was observed with the small fibre probe.
(7) Regions of interest representing the angioma, perifocal and remote tissues, contralateral mirror regions, and standard brain regions were analyzed.
(8) But in each party there are major issues to be dealt with as the primary phase of the contests slips gradually into the rear-view mirror.
(9) Seven patients had usual atrial arrangement and 1 had mirror-image arrangement.
(10) The external and internal rear-view mirrors of automobiles should be positioned within the binocular field of vision.
(11) There was also an OBE for Daily Mirror advice columnist and broadcaster, Dr Miriam Stoppard , while Dr Claire Bertschinger , whose appearance in Michael Buerk's 1984 reports from Ethiopia inspired Bob Geldof to organise Live Aid, was made a dame for services to nursing and international humanitarian aid.
(12) The hypothesis that this instability would lead to more errors and longer decision times for distinguishing left-right mirror-image figures was not supported.
(13) Taken together, her procedural memory on learning tasks, such as "Tower of Hanoi" and mirror drawing, was intact.
(14) However, the external muscle fibers of the ventricles ran clockwise from base to apex toward the center of the vortex, which had a striking resemblance to the normal rather than the mirror image pattern.
(15) Mr Murdoch joined News Corp in 1994, starting his career cleaning presses at the Mirror newspaper in Sydney.
(16) "Sometimes it's just a practical matter of not having anyone around to shoot you and that's why I always took my own pictures in mirrors for WIWT.
(17) Paul Vickers, the legal director of the Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror, said the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) – announced on Monday – was being fast-tracked in an attempt to kill off accusations that big newspaper groups are conspiring to delay the introduction of a new regulator backed by royal charter.
(18) In a third experiment, animals were trained 16 days in the same maze configuration and at day 17 they were exposed to the mirror image of the radial maze.
(19) One person’s snapshot can be another’s distorting mirror.
(20) Her behaviour with her European counterparts mirrored her treatment of the Tory grandees.
Reflector
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, reflects.
(n.) Something having a polished surface for reflecting light or heat, as a mirror, a speculum, etc.
(n.) A reflecting telescope.
(n.) A device for reflecting sound.
Example Sentences:
(1) A changed position of the mirror-reflector in the Rubin-2 thermovision unit as well as the use of an improved model of the couch-chair and a special cassette for electrochemical paper reduce the labour input and raise the information value of the method.
(2) As radiation sources, the following ones have proved useful: high-pressure mercury-vapour lamps, compound radiation systems consisting of high-pressure mercury-vapour burner, series coiled filament and reflector bulbs made of special glass as well as halogen metal-vapour lamps.
(3) We present applications to speckle reduction, detection of specular reflectors, attenuation estimation and ultrasound imaging.
(4) The likelihood for men to remarry is approximately five to six times higher and can be best interpreted as a reflector of the distribution of sexes on the "remarriage market", rather than as an expression of any differential priorities or attitudes between sex groups.
(5) It is estimated that about 30% of scintillation light can be collected at one end of such a counter, with a non-uniformity not greater than 10%, if magnesium oxide is used as the external reflector at all other surfaces.
(6) In this paper, it is demonstrated that the presence of a cepstral peak depends on the form of the probability density function (pdf) of the separation between reflectors.
(7) The data indicate that pharmacological stimulation of the peripheral arterial chemoreceptors by almitrine bismesylate in normoxic healthy humans causes reflectorically a slight renal vasoconstriction and a long-lasting inhibition of renal tubular sodium reabsorption.
(8) Therefore, the Doppler signal from a strong reflector distant from the center of the sample volume may mask the signal of a weak reflector located within the center.
(9) Moreover, strong echo-reflectors, such as calcification or prosthetic heart valves, create large acoustic shadowing effects behind which obtaining an ultrasound signal is difficult if not impossible.
(10) An even bigger motorcade collected us at the airport, security men in reflector shades jumping out and opening doors as our cars slowed down.
(11) Environmental noxious agents initiate hyper-reflectoric reactions of the mucosa, which seems to be the most impressive factor causing the change in rhinological diseases nowadays.
(12) The model includes magnitude and position of specular echoes, a random description of echoes from diffuse reflectors, and a parametric characterization of attenuation.
(13) Buried in the berm will be radar reflectors, magnets and a “Storage Room”, constructed around a stone slab too big to be removed via the chamber entrance.
(14) The use of levels of plasma HVA as a noninvasive reflector of DA function provides a research strategy for longitudinal studies of neuroleptic effects in schizophrenia.
(15) Reverberation produces a set of equally spaced artifactual echoes distal to the real reflectors.
(16) The shock wave ellipsoid reflector position is adjusted to the stone with a computer assisted positioning device.
(17) Four reflectors are fixed on the face of subject; two others are fixed on a metallic system that is glued on the buccal face of inferior canines.
(18) The manual therapy enables the treatment of the reflectoric expression of these disturbances.
(19) Disturbance of muscle coordination by reflectoric afferences from cervical or shoulder regions.
(20) On the other hand, extreme reflectoric muscle contractions, caused by a rotational trauma can cause chondromalacic lesions in the femoro-patellar joint, broadening the syndrome of the "unhappy triad" to an "unhappy tetrad".