But the other reason is that, paradoxically, the star's extreme heat itself makes the star almost invisible. As we saw above, Planck's law of black body radiation dictates that an object's temperature determines its color. Sirius, with its surface at a temperature of 18,000 degrees F, is so hot that it glows blue.
â¢ REFLEXIVE PRONOUN (noun). The noun REFLEXIVE PRONOUN has 1 sense: 1. a personal pronoun compounded with-self to show the agent's action affects the agent. Familiarity information: REFLEXIVE PRONOUN used as a noun is very rare.
In grammar, a reflexive verb is, loosely, a verb whose direct object is the same as its subject, for example, I wash myself.More generally, a reflexive verb has the same semantic agent and patient (typically represented syntactically by the subject and the direct object).or example, the English verb to perjure is reflexive, since one can only perjure oneself. In a wider sense, the term refers to any verb form whose grammatical object is a reflexive pronoun, regardless of semantics; such verbs are also referred to as pronominal verbs, especially in grammars of the Romance languages.