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transflexion

transflexion noun: type of spectroscopic measurement.

Noun

transflexion (countable and uncountable, plural transflexions)

  1. Type of spectroscopic measurement.
    • The measurement mode follows the principles of transflexion. For this purpose the cell is backed with a ceramic disc opposite the measuring head, along with the light source and the diode-array detector.2005, Sidney Walter Reginald Cox, Precision Livestock Farming '05, →ISBN, page 236
    • The invention relates to a transflexion probe for carrying out a transflexion measurement on a liquid located in a vessel, comprising a probe shaft which is provided with a light guide path in its interior and at whose front end there is arranged an open flow chamber with a reflective plate...2016, D Riechers, C Grimm, Transflexion probe and transflective sensor, US Patent 9,377,411
  2. Word-formation technique.
    • An interesting case is posed by Slovak transflexion which consists of employing an inflectional morpheme (or, better, the whole paradigm it stands for) in the word-formation role (ape -» to ape vs. opica —> opicif sä where -if is an infinitive-forming morpheme) ...2000, Pavol Štekauer, “Beheading the word? Please, stop the execution”, in Folia Linguistica, volume 34, number 3
    • So, for example, Waszakowa (1993) and Szymanek (2010) speak about paradigmatic derivation, and Dokulil (1962) about transflexion.2014, Rochelle Lieber, Pavol Stekauer, The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology, →ISBN

Examples of transflexion in a sentence

  • The TENIRS system is based on transflexion, a combination of transmission and reflectance, and requires the utilization of a transmission vial for the scanning process.2017 January, Stefan Junne, Johannes Kabisch, “Fueling the future with biomass: processes and pathways for a sustainable supply of...
  • Both conversion and transflexion represent non-affixal procedures of coining new complex words.2017, L Körtvélyessy, Essentials of Language Typology:

Forms of transflexion

pluraltransflexions

Questions about transflexion

What does transflexion mean?
Transflexion means type of spectroscopic measurement.
How do you use transflexion in a sentence?
The TENIRS system is based on transflexion, a combination of transmission and reflectance, and requires the utilization of a transmission vial for the scanning process.
What part of speech is transflexion?
Transflexion is a noun.
What is the plural of transflexion?
The plural of transflexion is transflexions.

Words near transflexion in the dictionary

  1. transfixtures
  2. transflectance
  3. transflection
  4. transflections
  5. transflective
  6. transflexion
  7. transflexions
  8. transfluence
  9. transfluences
  10. transfluent
  11. transfluorescence

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