English
transflection
Blend of transmission + reflection.
A blend of transmission + reflection
Latin mittō ‘to send, dispatch, cause to go, let go,…’
Latin trānsmittō ‘to transmit, send, carry, or convey across,…’
Latin transmissionem
English transmission
Latin flectō ‘to turn or curl’
Latin reflectō ‘to turn back or away’
Late Latin reflexiō ‘turning away or back’
Middle French reflection
Middle English refleccion
English reflection
Today it means
noun A type of spectroscopic measurement produced by transmitting light through a sample and reflecting it back through the sample onto a probe.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “transflection”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / transflection