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Definition of Reflectors
1. reflector [n] - See also: reflector
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reflectors
Literary usage of Reflectors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal by United States Congress Senate (1899)
"Spun reflectors are never true, as it is found in practice impossible to ...
Stamped reflectors have also been tried, but with no more satisfactory results. ..."
2. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"Newtonian observers cannot understand how those who observe with refractors or
Cassegrain reflectors can bear to strain their neck so in looking up through ..."
3. The Modern Factory: Safety, Sanitation and Welfare by George Moses Price (1914)
"Wherever reflectors are used, it is preferable from the standpoint of ... Opal or
prismatic glass reflectors have been used to a considerable extent. ..."
4. Principles of Physics, Or Natural Philosophy: Designed for the Use of by Benjamin Silliman (1871)
"The term mirror is generally applied to reflectors made of glass and coated with an
... Specula are metallic reflectors, having a highly polished surface. ..."
5. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1859)
"IMPROVEMENTS IN LENSES AND reflectors. It is well known that Buffon, desirous of
repeating the experiment of Archimedes, with a burning glass, endeavored to ..."
6. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1858)
"IMPROVEMENTS Ш LENSES AND reflectors. It is well known that Buffon, desirous of
repeating the experiment of Archimedes, with a burning glass, endeavored to ..."
7. Experimental Electrical Engineering and Manual for Electrical Testing for by Vladimir Karapetoff (1907)
"Holophane globes and reflectors are made in a great many types to suit various
... Plot photometric curves of the globes and reflectors tested, as in Fig. ..."
8. Modern Illuminants and Illuminating Engineering by Leon Gaster, John Stewart Dow (1915)
"The Chief Functions of Globes, Shades, and reflectors—Diminution of Intrinsic
Brilliancy, Direction of Light, and Softening of Shadows—Some Common Types of ..."
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