mirror image

American  

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.

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mirror image British  

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

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Etymology

Origin of mirror image

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

They were looking for some persuasive mirror image of themselves.

From Literature

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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From Los Angeles Times

Chirality in molecules means they have a specific orientation in space such that the mirror image of the molecule in question cannot be perfectly superimposed on the original.

From Salon

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