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adj. - Not causing to rebound as sound or light.

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Usage examples (6)
  • Her 'nonreflecting' paint was overdue for renewal, and K. 15 could see her clearly.
  • The sky grew black, not as night, but like a flat, nonreflecting surface.
  • So the glossy cars, for example, are set off by an austere, nonreflecting background of matte concrete.
  • The patient put his phantom limb on the nonreflecting side of the mirror and his normal arm on the reflecting side of the mirror.
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