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reflects on

reflects on is the third-person singular simple present indicative of reflect on.

Meaning of reflect on

Verb

reflect on (third-person singular simple present reflects on, present participle reflecting on, simple past and past participle reflected on)

  1. (transitive) To think carefully about (something), and give it due consideration.
    • She reflected on her country's role in history.
  2. (transitive) To access details of (a data type, etc.) at run-time using reflection.
    • It is sometimes useful to be able to reflect on class or interface types in native code as well.1999, Sheng Liang, The Java Native Interface
  3. To give an impression of (used with an adverb).
    • The recent spate of vandalism by pupils does not reflect well on the school.

Questions about reflects on

What is reflects on the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Reflects on is the third-person singular simple present indicative of reflect on.

Words near reflects on in the dictionary

  1. reflectoscopic
  2. reflectoscopy
  3. reflectron
  4. reflectrons
  5. reflects
  6. reflects on
  7. reflects upon
  8. reflet
  9. reflet tile
  10. reflet tiles
  11. reflets

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reflects on (page history and authors); reflect on (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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