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transflection

The English word “transflection” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A type of spectroscopic measurement produced by transmitting light through a sample and reflecting it back through the sample onto a probe.
  2. A transfiguration consisting of reflection about a line combined with translation along the same line.
  3. The coining of a new word by changing of the inflectional pattern of an existing word.

Etymology

Blend of transmission + reflection.

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