Reflexive may refer to: In fiction: *

Metafiction Metafiction is a form of fiction which emphasises its own narrative structure in a way that continually reminds the audience that they are reading or viewing a fictional work. Metafiction is self-conscious about language, literary form, and story ...

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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 ...

, a pronoun with a reflexive relationship with its self-identical antecedent *

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 In mathematics and computer science: *

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 ...

, a relation where elements of a set are self-related *

Reflexive user interface Reflexive may refer to: In fiction: *Metafiction In grammar: * Reflexive pronoun, a pronoun with a reflexive relationship with its self-identical antecedent * Reflexive verb, where a semantic agent and patient are the same In mathematics and com ...

, an interface that permits its own command verbs and sometimes underlying code to be edited * Reflexive operator algebra, an operator algebra that has enough invariant subspaces to characterize it *

Reflexive space In the area of mathematics known as functional analysis, a reflexive space is a locally convex topological vector space (TVS) for which the canonical evaluation map from X into its bidual (which is the strong dual of the strong dual of X) is an iso ...

, a subset of Banach spaces *

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 linear ...

, a bilinear form for which the order of a pair of vectors does not affect whether it evaluates to zero. In biology *

Reflexive antagonism Reciprocal inhibition describes the relaxation of muscles on one side of a joint to accommodate contraction on the other side. In some allied health disciplines, this is known as reflexive antagonism. The central nervous system sends a message to ...

, the phenomenon by which muscles with opposing functions tend to antagonistically inhibit each other. Other uses: *

Reflexive Entertainment Reflexive Entertainment was a 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 Microsoft Wi ...

, a video game developer *

Reflexivity (social theory) In epistemology, and more specifically, the sociology of knowledge, reflexivity refers to circular relationships between cause and effect, especially as embedded in human belief structures. A reflexive relationship is bidirectional with both the ...

, a concept in social theory relating to the capacity of an individual agent to act against influences of socialization and social structure

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