"transflection" definition, meaning, and origin

Noun

A type of spectroscopic measurement produced by transmitting light through a sample and reflecting it back through the sample onto a probe.
- Because the beam is transmitted through the film and reflected from the substrate, the measurement of the spectra of relatively thick films on metal substrates is usually known as transflection spectrometry. - 2007,...
- Transflection is an extension of the transmission technique, as shown in Figure 4.10. When a mirror is placed behind the sample, the light transmitted through the sample is reflected back through the sample and into the...
- Individual cells may also be deposited onto a CaF2 window support, but perhaps the more practical and most appropriate (in terms of its match to cytological practices) method nowadays is to use a low-e glass slide and...

Blend of transmission + reflection.

A transfiguration consisting of reflection about a line combined with translation along the same line.
- Clearly, A", B", C" are not images of A, B, C, under either a translation, rotation, or reflection. Hopefully, it will be possible to find a unique transflection which does the job. - 1968, Myron Frederick Rosskopf,...
- During the sequence of considering translations, rotations, reflections, and transflections of a plane α, we show that ... - 1972, Merlyn J. Behr, Dale G. Jungst, Fundamentals of elementary mathematics; geometry, volume...
- Visualize these operations by considering the simple screw and transflection. Transflection can be imagined as seeing yourself in a mirror even as the mirror is being moved parallel to itself. - 2015, C. S. Sunandana,...

Blend of translation + reflection.

The coining of a new word by changing of the inflectional pattern of an existing word.
- A third means of a morphological nature is transflection, i.e., the transfer of a vocable (usually a verb) from one inflectional pattern to another. - 1972, Language Quarterly - Volumes 6-10, page 25:
- Synthetic compounds are coined productively in two basic ways, either as a combination of compounding and suffixation (6), or as a combination of compounding and transflection, in which case the right-most base lacks an...
- Another source of variability is given by competition of different word-formation procedures, eg transflection (a word-formation procedure common in Slavic languages in which a new word is coined by a change of...

Blend of transform + inflection.