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

Word History and Origins

Origin of mirror image¹

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

Google tries not to index duplicate content, mirror images of the same content, and it avoids indexing not useful content, URLs that have many URL parameters that might not add sufficient value and so forth.

From Search Engine Land

See if I can get a mirror image coming back at me from the world, or from somebody else’s soul, or mind, or mouth.

From Ozy

Not only would the positron break the two-particle paradigm, but it would also suggest that electrons had mirror images with no apparent role in making up atoms.

From Science News

Keep in mind that the data downloaded by an employer isn’t a mirror image of the actual Slack platform.

From Vox

I was expecting these two charts to be mirror images of each other and I am surprised that they don’t.

From Search Engine Watch

After the meeting, he told The New York Times that meeting Kyenge gave him a “mirror-image feeling.”

From The Daily Beast

The mirror-image systems of communism and fascism promised to solve problems quickly through command and control.

From The Daily Beast

President Barack Obama, on the other hand, is the mirror image, his liberal intellectual equal.

From The Daily Beast

In short, she was a nearly mirror image of her troubled daughter.

From The Daily Beast

It also tells the story of my mother, a mirror image of my motherland.

From The Daily Beast

There was even one letter 'o' which appeared to be upside down, or, perhaps, a mirror-image.

From Project Gutenberg

He was probably also the most Campbellian; his self-reliant man is almost a mirror image of Campbell's "Citizen."

From Project Gutenberg

I could see in the mirror-image, behind Dud's head the outlines of the little public cubby from which he was calling.

From Project Gutenberg

These he observed to be of two kinds differing in form as a right glove from a left, or as an object from its mirror-image.

From Project Gutenberg

Capgras is the mirror image, I guess: a failure to react emotionally to familiar faces.

From Project Gutenberg

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