There are four varieties of commercially viable coffee: Arabica, Liberica, Excelsa, and Robusta. Growers predominantly plant the Arabica species. Although less popular, Robusta tastes slightly more bitter and contains more caffeine.
REFLECTING
reflecting
(adjective) causing reflection or having a device that reflects; “a reflecting microscope”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
reflecting
present participle of reflect
Noun
reflecting (plural reflectings)
An instance of reflection
Adjective
reflecting (comparative more reflecting, superlative most reflecting)
That has been reflected (of light, sound etc.); undergoing reflection. [from 16th c.]
That reflects. [from 16th c.]
Having a component that reflects light. [from 17th c.]
Given to introspection; thoughtful, reflective. [from 17th c.]
(obsolete) Insulting, disparaging. [17th–19th c.]
Source: Wiktionary
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.
REFLECT
Re*flect" (r*flkt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reflected; p. pr. & vb. n. Reflecting.] Etym: [L. reflectere, reflexum; pref. re- re- + flectere to bend or turn. See Flexible, and cf. Reflex, v.]
1. To bend back; to give a backwaas, a mirror reflects rays of light; polished metals reflect heat. Let me mind the reader to reflect his eye on our quotations. Fuller. Bodies close together reflect their own color. Dryden.
2. To give back an image or likeness of; to mirror. Nature is the glass reflecting God, As by the sea reflected is the sun. Young.
Re*flect" v. i.
1. To throw back light, heat, or the like; to return rays or beams.
2. To be sent back; to rebound as from a surface; to revert; to return. Whose virtues will, I hope, Reflect on Rome, as Titan's rays on earth. Shak.
3. To throw or turn back the thoughts upon anything; to contemplate. Specifically: To attend earnestly to what passes within the mind; to attend to the facts or phenomena of consciousness; to use attention or earnest thought; to meditate; especially, to think in relation to moral truth or rules. We can not be said to reflect upon any external object, except so far as that object has been previously perceived, and its image become part and parcel of our intellectual furniture. Sir W. Hamilton. All men are concious of the operations of their own minds, at all times, while they are awake, but there few who reflect upon them, or make them objects of thought. Reid. As I much reflected, much I mourned. Prior.
4. To cast reproach; to cause censure or dishonor. Errors of wives reflect on husbands still. Dryden. Neither do I reflect in the least upon the memory of his late majesty. Swift.
Syn.
– To consider; think; cogitate; mediate; contemplate; ponder; muse; ruminate.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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INTERSPERSION
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