reflector

1 device that reflects radiation

2 optical telescope consisting of a large concave mirror that produces an image that is magnified by the eyepiece; "Isaac Newton invented the reflecting telescope in 1668" [syn: reflecting telescope]

English

Noun

1. Something which reflects heat, light or sound, especially something having a reflecting surface.
2. A reflecting telescope.
3. A small, often red, reflecting disk on the rear of a vehicle that reflects the headlights of other vehicles.

Dutch

Noun

reflector

1. reflecting device on the back of a vehicle, e.g. a bike

A reflector can mean one of several things:

Science

• Reflector, a device that causes reflection (for example, a mirror or a retroreflector)
• Reflector (photography), used to control lighting contrast
• Reflecting telescope
• Reflector (antenna), the part of an antenna that reflects radio waves
• Reflector (cipher machine), a component of some rotor machines (a type of cipher machine), such as the Enigma machine, that sends electrical impulses that have reached it from the machine's rotors, back in reverse order through those rotors
• Reflector, The newsletter of the Boston section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Neutron reflector

Computing

• The .NET Reflector code browser utility
• A computer program such as GNU Mailman, LISTSERV or Majordomo that re-mails electronic mail to a pre-determined distribution list

Music

• Reflector (Pablo Cruise album), a 1981 album by Pablo Cruise
• Reflector (Killing Heidi album), a 2000 album by Killing Heidi
• Reflector (PlanetShakers album), a 2002 album by PlanetShakers
• Reflector (band), a rock band based in Beijing

Fiction

• Reflector (Transformers), a Decepticon in the Transformers toyline of the 1980s

Cassegrainian telescope, Newtonian telescope, OAO, OSO, astronomical observatory, astronomical telescope, cheval glass, coelostat, concave mirror, convex mirror, coronagraph, coronograph, distorting mirror, glass, hand mirror, heliostat, looking glass, mirror, observatory, orrery, pier glass, planetarium, radar telescope, radio observatory, radio telescope, rear-view mirror, refractor, seeing glass, shaving mirror, spectrograph, spectroheliograph, spectrohelioscope, spectroscope, speculum, telescope, window mirror