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mirror image

noun

  1. an image of an object, plan, person, etc., as it would appear if viewed in a mirror, with right and left reversed.
  2. an object having a spatial arrangement that corresponds to that of another object except that the right-to-left sense on one object corresponds to the left-to-right sense on the other.


mirror image

noun

  1. an image as observed in a mirror
  2. an object that corresponds to another object in the same way as it would correspond to its image in a mirror
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of mirror image1

First recorded in 1880–85
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Lincoln’s trajectory is the mirror image of Booth’s, but eventually their paths tragically converge.

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This was the starting point for the idea that we might eventually develop an entirely new class of drugs based on mirror image proteins or other components of life.

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In November 1994, Times’ Howard Rosenberg presented a number of theories about the show’s “ratings abyss,†including the possibility that it created such a “painful mirror image of adolescence,†it was uncomfortable to watch.

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When the lake levels have remained unchanged, these extremely smooth rock surfaces generate distinct single-repeat echoes, which accurately copy the given sounds, forming auditory mirror images that appear to emanate from behind the rock walls.

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Appearing in the episode’s cold open as the mirror image of Maya Rudolph’s Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee reassured herself that “You can do something your opponent cannot do: You can open doors.â€

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