Usually means: Automatic response to a stimulus.
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  1. reflex: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. reflex: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. reflex: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. reflex: Collins English Dictionary
  5. reflex: Vocabulary.com
  6. Reflex, reflex: Wordnik
  7. reflex: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. reflex: Wiktionary
  9. reflex: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. reflex: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. reflex: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. reflex: Dictionary.com
  13. reflex (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. reflex: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. 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
  16. Reflex: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. reflex: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. reflex: Rhymezone
  19. Reflex (m), reflex, reflex (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. reflex: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. reflex: Free Dictionary
  22. reflex: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. reflex: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. reflex: Legal dictionary

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  1. reflex: Encyclopedia

Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Reflex: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  8. reflex: Medical dictionary
  9. WeMove Glossary of Terms (No longer online)
  10. Reflex: Drug Medical Dictionary
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  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 (reflex)

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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