mirror image
Americannoun
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an image of an object, plan, person, etc., as it would appear if viewed in a mirror, with right and left reversed.
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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.
noun
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an image as observed in a mirror
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an object that corresponds to another object in the same way as it would correspond to its image in a mirror
Etymology
Origin of mirror image
First recorded in 1880–85
Example Sentences
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For the visitors, the productivity was a maddening mirror image.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
He averages 23.9 against southpaws compared with 31.3 against right-handers - helpful for England because Tongue and Atkinson's records are almost a mirror image.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Notice also that midcap relative strength compared with the large caps is often the mirror image of midcap relative strength compared with the small caps.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
Living organisms typically produce almost exclusively one mirror image of a chiral molecule.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
In a mirror image of the past, the captured 8-Deer was forced to bow to 4-Wind.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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