REFLECTING SURFACE

  

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REFLECTING SURFACE

Specialty Definition: REFLECTING SURFACE

DomainDefinition

Electrical Engineering

A conductive surface or conductive assembly which acts as a practically continuous surface, whose dimension is large compared to the wavelength, used to reinforce or divert the incident radiation in desired directions. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: REFLECTING SURFACE

English words defined with "REFLECTING SURFACE": Angle of reflectionblipGlass silveringpipradar target. (references)
Specialty definitions using "REFLECTING SURFACE": Brewster's lawCassegrain, cheese, choke piston, choke plungerdoppler radarmach stemnon-contact piston, non-contact plunger, non-contacting pistonreflected ray, reflection law, rod mirror, rod reflectorscattering loss. (references)

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Use in Literature: REFLECTING SURFACE

TitleAuthorQuote

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

These small waves raised by the evening wind are as remote from storm as the smooth reflecting surface.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Modern Translation: REFLECTING SURFACE

Language Translations for "REFLECTING SURFACE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

reflekterende overflade (reflective coating, reflector), reflekterende flade (reflector). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

reflectievlak (reflector), reflecterend oppervlak (reflector). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

heijastin (luminous badge, reflector). (various references)

   

French

  

surface réfléchissante (game reflector, reflective coating, reflector). (various references)

   

German

  

Reflexionsflaeche (reflective coating, reflector), reflektierende Fläche (reflector). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

επιφάνεια ανάκλασης (reflector), ανακλώσα επιφάνεια (reflector). (various references)

   

Italian

  

superficie riflettente (reflective coating, reflector). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eflectingray urfacesay

   

Portuguese

  

superfície reflectora (reflective coating, reflector). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

superficie reflectora (reflective coating, reflector). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: REFLECTING SURFACE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-e-f-f-g-i-l-n-r-r-s-t-u"

-4 letters: recentrifuges.

-5 letters: centrifugals, generatrices, recentrifuge, recirculates, reflectances, reluctancies.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: REFLECTING SURFACE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 45 46 4C 45 43 54 49 4E 47      53 55 52 46 41 43 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01000101 01000110 01001100 01000101 01000011 01010100 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01010011 01010101 01010010 01000110 01000001 01000011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#69 &#70 &#76 &#69 &#67 &#84 &#73 &#78 &#71 &#32 &#83 &#85 &#82 &#70 &#65 &#67 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0045 0046 004C 0045 0043 0054 0049 004E 0047      0053 0055 0052 0046 0041 0043 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

52394046393754434841253555240353739

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Quotations: Fiction
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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