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mirror finish

British  

noun

  1. a smooth highly polished surface produced on metal by mechanical or electrolytic polishing or lapping

"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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The mold is hand polished to a mirror finish, giving the bumper its lustre.

From Reuters • Sep. 18, 2023

Its screen is slightly domed glass; its barrel has a mirror finish that reflects your wall.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2011

Sight down the hull or the house, and a mirror finish shows how much time was spent getting each mold perfect.

From Time Magazine Archive

Crew members lather that beautiful plane with Glass Wax before a trip, polish it to a mirror finish with compressed-air buffers and add tire black to the ten wheels.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was so bright that it seemed to have a mirror finish.

From The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Ruppelt, Edward J.

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