different between reflection vs utterance

English

Alternative forms

• reflexion

Etymology

From Middle French reflexion, reflection, and its source Late Latin reflexio, from the participle stem of reflectere. The current spelling is influenced by reflect.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???fl?k??n/
• Hyphenation: re?flec?tion
• Rhymes: -?k??n

Noun

reflection (countable and uncountable, plural reflections)

1. The act of reflecting or the state of being reflected.
2. The property of a propagated wave being thrown back from a surface (such as a mirror).
3. Something, such as an image, that is reflected.

5. Careful thought or consideration.
6. An implied criticism.

7. (computing) The process or mechanism of determining the capabilities of an object at run-time.
8. (anatomy) The folding of a part; a fold.

Derived terms

Related terms

• reflect
• reflective
• reflector

Translations

See also

• refraction
• diffraction

English

Alternative forms

• utteraunce

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t???ns/
• Hyphenation: ut?ter?ance

Etymology 1

From utter +? -ance.

Noun

utterance (countable and uncountable, plural utterances)

1. An act of uttering.
   • July 1857, Thomas Hill, "The Imagination in Mathematics", in The North American Review

     Mathematics and Poetry are [...] the utterance of the same power of imagination, only that in the one case it is addressed to the head, in the other, to the heart.

2. Something spoken.
   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 237a.

     To know how one should express oneself in saying or judging that there really are falsehoods without getting caught up in contradiction by such an utterance: that's extremely difficult, Theaetetus.

3. The ability to speak.
4. A manner of speaking.
5. (obsolete) A sale made by offering to the public.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

6. (obsolete) An act of putting in circulation.

Related terms

• utter
• utterable
• utterer

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old French oultrance.

Noun

utterance (plural utterances)

1. (now literary) The utmost extremity (of a fight etc.).

References

Further reading

• utterance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• utterance at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• cruentate