Reflexive, or the property reflexivity, may refer to:
Fiction
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Metafiction
Metafiction is a form of fiction that emphasizes its own narrative structure in a way that inherently reminds the audience that they are reading or viewing a fictional work. Metafiction is self-conscious about language, literary form, and story ...
Grammar
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Reflexivity (grammar) In grammar, reflexivity is a property of syntactic constructs whereby two arguments (actual or implicit) of an action or relation expressed by a single predicate have the same reference.Routledge dictionary of language and linguistics By Hadumod Bu ...
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Reflexive pronoun
A reflexive pronoun is a pronoun that refers to another noun or pronoun (its antecedent) within the same sentence.
In the English language specifically, a reflexive pronoun will end in ''-self'' or ''-selves'', and refer to a previously n ...
, a pronoun with a reflexive relationship with its self-identical antecedent
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Reflexive verb
In grammar, a reflexive verb is, loosely, a verb whose direct object is the same as its subject, for example, "I wash myself". More generally, a reflexive verb has the same semantic agent and patient (typically represented syntactically by the s ...
, where a semantic agent and patient are the same
Mathematics and computer science
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Reflexive relation
In mathematics, a binary relation R on a set X is reflexive if it relates every element of X to itself.
An example of a reflexive relation is the relation " is equal to" on the set of real numbers, since every real number is equal to itself. A ...
, a relation where elements of a set are self-related
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Reflexive user interface
Reflexive, or the property reflexivity, may refer to:
Fiction
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Grammar
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**Reflexive pronoun, a pronoun with a reflexive relationship with its self-identical antecedent
**Reflexive verb, where a semantic agent a ...
, an interface that permits its own command verbs and sometimes underlying code to be edited
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Reflexive operator algebra In functional analysis, a reflexive operator algebra ''A'' is an operator algebra that has enough invariant subspaces to characterize it. Formally, ''A'' is reflexive if it is equal to the algebra of bounded operators which leave invariant each ...
, an operator algebra that has enough invariant subspaces to characterize it
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Reflexive space
In the area of mathematics known as functional analysis, a reflexive space is a locally convex topological vector space for which the canonical evaluation map from X into its bidual (which is the strong dual of the strong dual of X) is a homeomo ...
, a subset of Banach spaces
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Reflexive bilinear form
In mathematics, a bilinear form is a bilinear map on a vector space (the elements of which are called '' vectors'') over a field ''K'' (the elements of which are called '' scalars''). In other words, a bilinear form is a function that is linea ...
, a bilinear form for which the order of a pair of vectors does not affect whether it evaluates to zero.
Biology
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Reflexive antagonism
Reciprocal inhibition is a neuromuscular process in which muscles on one side of a joint relax to allow the contraction of muscles on the opposite side, enabling smooth and coordinated movement. This concept, introduced by Charles Sherrington, ...
, the phenomenon by which muscles with opposing functions tend to antagonistically inhibit each other.
* Self-reflexivity (see
Self-reference
Self-reference is a concept that involves referring to oneself or one's own attributes, characteristics, or actions. It can occur in language, logic, mathematics, philosophy, and other fields.
In natural or formal languages, self-reference ...
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Other
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Reflexive Entertainment
Reflexive Entertainment was an American video game developer based in Lake Forest, California. The company was cofounded by Lars Brubaker, Ernie Ramirez, James C. Smith and Ion Hardie in 1997. They developed nineteen games independently (for Mi ...
, a video game developer
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Reflexivity (social theory), a concept in social theory relating to the capacity of an individual agent to act against influences of socialization and social structure
See also
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Reflection (disambiguation)
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Reflections (disambiguation)
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