Re*flect"ing, a. 1.
Throwing back light, heat, etc., as a mirror or other
surface.
2. Given to reflection or serious
consideration; reflective; contemplative; as, a reflecting
mind.
Reflecting circle, an astronomical instrument
for measuring angless, like the sextant or Hadley's quadrant, by the
reflection of light from two plane mirrors which it carries, and
differing from the sextant chiefly in having an entire circle. --
Reflecting galvanometer, a galvanometer in which
the deflections of the needle are read by means of a mirror attached
to it, which reflects a ray of light or the image of a scale; --
called also mirror galvanometer. -- Reflecting
goniometer. See under Goniometer. --
Reflecting telescope. See under
Telescope.