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mirror symmetry

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noun

  1. symmetry about a plane ( mirror plane ) that divides the object or system into two mutual mirror images

"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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Quarks in the Looking Glass: A recent experiment at Jefferson Lab probed the mirror symmetry of quarks.

From Scientific American • Feb. 22, 2014

Maxim Konstevich — For numerous contributions which have taken the fruitful interaction between modern theoretical physics and mathematics to new heights, including the development of homological mirror symmetry, and the study of wall-crossing phenomena.

From Scientific American • Jul. 31, 2012

In the late 1950s, physicists discovered that neutrinos, unlike anything else in the universe known until then, appeared to violate mirror symmetry.

From New York Times • May 18, 2011

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