Sentence examples for passively reflecting from inspiring English sources
But the evolution of computer security is not merely some dark mirror, passively reflecting advances in technology.
Most of us understand that our perceptual systems, far from passively reflecting the world around us, actively sort, select, distort, ignore, and alter a huge amount of information in order to construct reality as we experience it.
Fang, whose group studies the light-scattering properties of exotic, phase-changing materials, wondered whether such optical materials could be fashioned for windows, to passively reflect a significant portion of a building's incoming heat.
By implication, then, when a direct measurement of physical reality occurs it merely passively reflects rather than actively constituting that which is observed.
Targets emit power either because they passively reflect the energy of other transmitters such as radar or because they are active sources such as cell phones or transmitters mounted on smart cars.
As discussed in the previous sections, GNSS-R may be used for a variety of remote sensing applications such as studies of the sea surface height and roughness or salinity and soil moisture from the properties of passively reflected GNSS signals.
But even under this argument, financial markets are merely a mirror -- they passively reflect the economy, but do not actively affect it.
Droplet-bound BicD levels could be actively controlled, or could passively reflect changing embryonic levels of BicD.
These effects may passively reflect environmental conditions that constrain maternal ability to allocate resources to offspring (e.g. see Mousseau and Dingle 1991; Karell et al. 2008).
For individual pairs of cells, this peak, especially that with a long peak time, might just passively reflect the fact that they had firing fields on the same trajectory, not necessarily reflecting any functional interaction.
A computer screen, for instance, actively pumps streams of photons into the user's eyes, whereas a printed page relies simply on ambient light being reflected passively from the ink and paper.
