Usually means: Automatic response to a stimulus.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. reflex: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. reflex: Merriam-Webster
  3. reflex: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. reflex: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. reflex: Collins English Dictionary
  6. reflex: Vocabulary.com
  7. Reflex, reflex: Wordnik
  8. reflex: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. reflex: Wiktionary
  10. reflex: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. reflex: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. reflex: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. reflex: Dictionary.com
  14. reflex (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. reflex: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. ReFLEX, Reflex (building design software), Reflex (disambiguation), Reflex (game show), Reflex (group), Reflex (linguistics), Reflex (magazine), Reflex (novel), Reflex, The Reflex: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Reflex: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. reflex: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. reflex: Rhymezone
  20. Reflex (m), reflex, reflex (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. reflex: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. reflex: FreeDictionary.org
  23. reflex: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. reflex: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reflex: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reflex: Encyclopedia

Medicine (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. reflex: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Reflex: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Johnson Bwby (No longer online)
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  8. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  9. reflex: Medical dictionary
  10. WeMove Glossary of Terms (No longer online)
  11. Reflex: Drug Medical Dictionary
  12. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. REFLEX: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Reflex, the reflex: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Reflex: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reflex: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary

(Note: See reflexed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.
noun:  (linguistics) The descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter language.
noun:  (linguistics, rare) The ancestor word corresponding to a descendant.
noun:  The descendant of anything from an earlier time, such as a cultural myth.
noun:  (chiefly photography) Reflection or an image produced by reflection. The light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
adjective:  Bent, turned back or reflected.
adjective:  Produced automatically by a stimulus.
adjective:  (geometry, of an angle) Having greater than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees.
adjective:  (painting) Illuminated by light reflected from another part of the same picture.
verb:  (transitive) To bend back or turn back over itself.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To reflect (light, sight, etc.).
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To reflect or mirror (an object), to show the image of.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To cast (beams of light) on something.
verb:  To respond to a stimulus.

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