reflexive

reflexive
reflexively, adv.reflexiveness, reflexivity /ree'flek siv"i tee/, n.
/ri flek"siv/, adj.
1. Gram.
a. (of a verb) taking a subject and object with identical referents, as shave in I shave myself.
b. (of a pronoun) used as an object to refer to the subject of a verb, as myself in I shave myself.
2. reflex; responsive.
3. able to reflect; reflective.
4. Math.
a. noting a relation in which each element is in relation to itself, as the relation "less than or equal to." Cf. antireflexive.
b. (of a vector space) having the property that the dual space of the dual space of the given vector space equals the given vector space.
n.
5. Gram. a reflexive verb or pronoun.
[1580-90; < ML reflexivus turned back, reflected. See REFLEX, -IVE]

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