transflexion

English

Noun

transflexion (countable and uncountable, plural transflexions)

1. Alternative form of transflection
   1. Type of spectroscopic measurement.
      • 2005, Sidney Walter Reginald Cox, Precision Livestock Farming '05, →ISBN, page 236:

        The measurement mode follows the principles of transflexion. For this purpose the cell is backed with a ceramic disc opposite the measuring head, along with the light source and the diode-array detector.

      • 2016, D Riechers, C Grimm, Transflexion probe and transflective sensor, US Patent 9,377,411:

        The invention relates to a transflexion probe for carrying out a transflexion measurement on a liquid located in a vessel, comprising a probe shaft which is provided with a light guide path in its interior and at whose front end there is arranged an open flow chamber with a reflective plate opposite the front end face of the probe shaft.

      • 2017 January, Stefan Junne, Johannes Kabisch, “Fueling the future with biomass: processes and pathways for a sustainable supply of hydrocarbon fuels and biogas”, in Engineering in Life Sciences, volume 17, number 1:

        The TENIRS system is based on transflexion, a combination of transmission and reflectance, and requires the utilization of a transmission vial for the scanning process.

   2. (linguistics) Word-formation technique.
      • 2000, Pavol Štekauer, “Beheading the word? Please, stop the execution”, in Folia Linguistica, volume 34, number 3:

        An interesting case is posed by Slovak transflexion which consists of employing an inflectional morpheme (or, better, the whole paradigm it stands for) in the word-formation role (ape -» to ape vs. opica —> opicif sä where -if is an infinitive-forming morpheme) ...

      • 2014, Rochelle Lieber, Pavol Stekauer, The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology, →ISBN:

        So, for example, Waszakowa (1993) and Szymanek (2010) speak about paradigmatic derivation, and Dokulil (1962) about transflexion.

      • 2017, L Körtvélyessy, Essentials of Language Typology:

        Both conversion and transflexion represent non-affixal procedures of coining new complex words.