reflect on

present singular third person reflects on · participle present reflecting on · participle past reflected on · past reflected on

1. transitiveTo think carefully about (something), and give it due consideration.

   She reflected on her country's role in history.

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   The Leicester Daily Mercury reflected on how these concerns were the result of changing ways of getting around: "It might sound a bit crazy or just a little revolting that at Christmas works parties, some should drink themselves into a near-insensible state... This was not serious when they used public transport, but today more men and women use their own cars."

   2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 29

2. transitivecomputingTo access details of (a data type, etc.) at run-time using reflection.

   Load-time MOPs reflect on the bytecode and make use of a modified class loader.

   2001, Jørgen Lindskov Knudsen, ECOOP 2001 - Object-oriented Programming: 15th European Conference

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   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

   To define attribute classes and reflect on them at runtime, you have to consider a few more issues.

   2005, Eric Gunnerson, Nick Wienholt, Anders Hejlsberg, A Programmer's Introduction to C# 2.0

3. To give an impression of (used with an adverb).

   The recent spate of vandalism by pupils does not reflect well on the school.