reflecting faculties

pl. Phren.: A division of the intellectual faculties, comprising Comparison and Causality. Called also Reflective Faculties. [PHRENOLOGY.] "The Perceptive and Reflecting Faculties , or Intellect, form ideas, perceive relations, and are subject to, or rather constitute, the Will; and minister to the Affective Faculties."- Chambers ' Encyc . (ed. 1865), vii. 517. reflecting-galvanometer, s. Electr.: Sir William Thomson's reflecting-galvanometer consists of a very small magnet, made of a piece of watch-spring, suspended between two flat bobbins of fine insulated copper wire. The IMG:content-0355.png:[blocks in formation] is adjusted by means of a directing-magnet to throw the rays of light, i uing from a lamp and reflected from the mirror, upon the zero of a horizontal graduated scale when no current is pa ing, or when two equal and opposite currents neutralize each other. In any other case the vibrations of the magnet cause the image to be deflected to the right or left of zero by an amount proportional to the force and duration of the current. [GALVANOMETER.]