reflector
Reflector (French reflecteur ; from Latin reflectere ) stands for:
- a light reflecting surface, see mirror
- a surface shape that deflects incident waves back in the direction of incidence, see retroreflection
- a combination of a lens and a reflective surface, see cat's eye
- one type of optical telescope, see reflecting telescope
- in photography a reflective flat screen, see light shaper
- In traffic engineering, objects that reflect headlights particularly strongly, see reflector
- In radar technology, a surface that is particularly clearly visible in the radar image, see radar reflector
- in microwave technology the negatively charged electrode in a reflex klystron
- in nuclear technology a covering that slows down and reflects neutrons , see neutron reflector
- in cryptology a component that returns a signal, see reflector (cryptology)
- In acoustics, a component that reflects sound waves, see diffuser
- a passive amplifier element in directional antennas, see parasitic element
- a narrative figure, see reflector (literature)
- a special functor in the mathematical field of category theory, see reflector (category theory)
- an album by the band Arcade Fire, see Reflektor (album)
- a virtual conference room in digital radio, see digital mobile radio
- a literary group around the Polish literary magazine of the same name (1923-25), see Reflektor (magazine)
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Wiktionary: Reflektor - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations