transflection noun3 •A type of spectroscopic measurement produced by transmitting light through a sample and reflecting it back through the sample onto a probe.The images were acquired in the transflection (interactance) mode in which illumination and measurements were performed on the same side of the sample. — 2010 •A transfiguration consisting of reflection about a line combined with translation along the same line.Clearly, A", B", C" are not images of A, B, C, under either a translation, rotation, or reflection. Hopefully, it will be possible to find a unique transflection which does the job. — 1968 •The coining of a new word by changing of the inflectional pattern of an existing word.A third means of a morphological nature is transflection, i.e., the transfer of a vocable (usually a verb) from one inflectional pattern to another. — 1972 formstransflections
