Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. Tending to reflect light back to its source with a minimum scattering of light.
Etymologies
- retro- + reflective (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The new federally required "retroreflective" guard uniforms cost the tiny Demarest Police Department more than $2,000.”
“retroreflective" sheeting is a more effective innovation.”
“It uses an infrared security camera modified with a IR long-pass filter and retroreflective tape to track the tumbleweed.”
“Meanwhile, the Georgia Tech system essentially exploits the retroreflective property of digital camera lenses, says the story.”
“For those motorists, truck and bus drivers who travel the roads at night, these retroreflective measures must be the most obvious brilliant steps forward in road safety they have seen for years,”
“The concept is similar to that of a polarised retroreflective sensor; if the sensor cannot see the background (reflector), the output switches on - indicating that the target object is present.”
“According to the complaint, 3M has attempted to increase its monopoly power by unlawfully seeking to prevent Avery Dennison from offering its new OmniCube™ product, which meets the most recent standard for high-performance retroreflective sheeting defined by standards organization ASTM International.”
Avery Dennison Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against 3M - Yahoo! Finance
“Corporation and subsidiary 3M Innovative Properties Company with unlawful monopolization and unfair competition in two markets for retroreflective sheeting, a technology used to enhance the nighttime visibility of road signs and other highway and transportation products.”
Avery Dennison Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against 3M - Yahoo! Finance
“Photoelectric sensors are available in retroreflective, transmitted beam, and diffuse modes.”
“Methods we studied forward flexion and lateral bending of the spine using an optoelectronic system and passive retroreflective markers applied on the trunk.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘retroreflective’.
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Open List: Totally -Retro-
A list of terms containing the string -retro-.
Please feel free to help me populate this list!
retrolingual, retroversion, retrocession, retrocessional, retrograde, retrorse, retroflexion, retroflection, retrogradation, retrocede, retrospect, retrospection and 149 more...
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Name, a Novel
Odd words and odder juxtapositions of words from Name, a Novel by Toadex Hobogrammathon. Some would consider these dystopic "junk phrases", and that's precisely why I like them. Full text at the Po...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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them's reading words
things i pick up over the course of my academic reading
puissance, cleped, tintinnabulation, metastasize, dithyramb, coenesthesis, conflate, hegemonic, counter-hegemonic, conventicle, dialectic, mendacity and 14 more...
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litany of lexical likes
words I find interesting or that stuck in my head or that I want to revisit at some point
loblolly, animadvert, misoneism, outrance, chokedamp, appropinquate, noesis, cataphor, flabbergastment, godforsaken, mendacity, sussurus and 86 more...
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