Found 3 items, similar to reflex.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: reflex refleks
English → English (WordNet) Definition: reflex reflex n : an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus [syn: instinctive reflex, innate reflex, inborn reflex , unconditioned reflex, physiological reaction] reflex adj : without volition or conscious control; “the automatic shrinking of the pupils of the eye in strong light”; “a reflex knee jerk”; “sneezing is reflexive” [syn: automatic, reflex(a), reflexive]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Reflex Reflex \Re"flex\ (r?"fl?ks; formerly r?*fl?ks"), n. [L. reflexus a bending back. See Reflect.] 1. Reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade. [1913 Webster] Yon gray is not the morning's eye, 'Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow. --Shak. [1913 Webster] On the depths of death there swims The reflex of a human face. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 2. (Physiol.) An involuntary movement produced by reflex action. [1913 Webster] Patellar reflex. See Knee jerk, under Knee. [1913 Webster] Reflex \Re"flex\ (r?"fl?ks), a. [L. reflexus, p. p. of reflectere: cf. F. r['e]flexe. See Reflect.] 1. Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive; introspective. [1913 Webster] The reflex act of the soul, or the turning of the intellectual eye inward upon its own actions. --Sir M. Hale. [1913 Webster] 2. Produced in reaction, in resistance, or in return. [1913 Webster] 3. (Physiol.) Of, pertaining to, or produced by, stimulus or excitation without the necessary intervention of consciousness. [1913 Webster] Reflex action (Physiol.), any action performed involuntarily in consequence of an impulse or impression transmitted along afferent nerves to a nerve center, from which it is reflected to an efferent nerve, and so calls into action certain muscles, organs, or cells. Reflex nerve (Physiol.), an excito-motory nerve. See Exito-motory. [1913 Webster] Reflex \Re*flex"\ (r?*fl?ks"), v. t. [L. reflexus, p. p. of reflectere. See Reflect.] 1. To reflect. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To bend back; to turn back. --J. Gregory. [1913 Webster]