reflector

noun

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re·flec·tor | \ ri-ˈflek-tər

Definition of reflector

1 : one that reflects especially : a polished surface for reflecting light or other radiation

2 : a telescope in which the principal focusing element is a mirror

Examples of reflector in a Sentence

safety devices such as bicycle reflectors Reflectors are placed along the lanes of the highway.

Recent Examples on the Web The rear reflector lens may not reflect brightly enough. — Detroit Free Press, 5 June 2021 The dish was damaged in August when an auxiliary cable snapped and caused a 100-foot gash on the dish, breaking about 250 of the dish's 40,000 aluminum reflector panels and damaging the receiver platform that hung above it. — DÁnica Coto, Star Tribune, 5 Mar. 2021 In the Apollo 11, 14 and 15 landings on the moon, astronauts dropped off small reflector panels made up of the corners of glass cubes. — Nora Mcgreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Aug. 2020 Near Benjamin's body were pieces of a vehicle including a passenger-side mirror, reflector and lights. — Paul Walsh, Star Tribune, 28 Jan. 2021 For the last decade, scientists have been shooting powerful laser beams toward a reflector on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a spacecraft that orbits our moon about 240,000 miles from Earth. — Nora Mcgreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Aug. 2020 Cue the 1km diameter wire-mesh parabolic reflector—the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT)—which proposer Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory wants to build in a 3-5km-diameter lunar crater on the Moon’s far-side. — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2021 This has the five colors that every reflector has and can be folded up and put in a case. — Chris Hachey, BGR, 5 May 2021 Oddly enough, the base e-tron has better performing LED projector low-beam and LED reflector high-beam headlights. — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 13 Apr. 2021

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