Transflection

Quick meaning: Transflection is a noun meaning A type of spectroscopic measurement produced by transmitting light through a sample and reflecting it back through the sample onto a probe.

Meaning

A type of spectroscopic measurement produced by transmitting light through a sample and reflecting it back through the sample onto a probe.

More Meanings

1. (geometry) A transfiguration consisting of reflection about a line combined with translation along the same line.
2. (linguistics) The coining of a new word by changing of the inflectional pattern of an existing word.

Example Sentences

During the sequence of considering translations, rotations, reflections, and transflections of a plane α, we show that .

A third means of a morphological nature is transflection, i.e., the transfer of a vocable (usually a verb) from one inflectional pattern to another.

The images were acquired in the transflection (interactance) mode in which illumination and measurements were performed on the same side of the sample.

Clearly, A", B", C" are not images of A, B, C, under either a translation, rotation, or reflection. Hopefully, it will be possible to find a unique transflection which does the job.

Word Forms

• transflections
• transflexion

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include spectrofluorometry, spectrophotofluorometry, transmissometer, spectrofluorescence, transmissiometer, fluoroprobe.

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