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

Here was the mirror image of the same incompetence Meredith Whitney was making her name pointing out.

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Much of this legislation began in Texas, where new maps continue to face legal challenges for cracking diverse urban centers and consolidating white rural power, a mirror image of Utah’s approach.

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If anything, he turned Sunday’s match into a mirror image of the Wimbledon final where Sinner had been the one in command all afternoon.

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After all, simply making the backward route a mirror image of the forward one would be boring.

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Lincoln’s trajectory is the mirror image of Booth’s, but eventually their paths tragically converge.

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