Meanings
nounsuperreflection (countable and uncountable, plural superreflections)
plural superreflections
- countableuncountableThe reflection of a reflected image, sound, magnetosonic wave, etc.
There be three kinds of reflections of sounds; a reflection concurrent, a reflection iterant, which we call echo; and a super-reflection, or an echo of an echo
1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “III. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC
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