mirror : Idioms & Phrases


Burning mirror

  • a concave mirror, or a combination of plane mirrors, used for the same purpose as a burning glass.
Webster 1913

car mirror

  • noun a mirror that the driver of a car can use
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Conjugate mirrors

  • (Optics), two mirrors so placed that rays from the focus of one are received at the focus of the other, especially two concave mirrors so placed that rays proceeding from the principal focus of one and reflected in a parallel beam are received upon the other and brought to the principal focus.
Webster 1913

Focal distance, or length,of a lens or mirror

  • (Opt.), the distance of the focus from the surface of the lens or mirror, or more exactly, in the case of a lens, from its optical center.
Webster 1913

hand mirror

  • noun a mirror intended to be held in the hand
    hand glass.
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Milk mirror

  • . Same as Escutcheon, 2.
Webster 1913

Mirror carp

  • noun domestic carp with some large shining scales
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  • (Zoöl.), a domesticated variety of the carp, having only three or fur rows of very large scales side.
Webster 1913

mirror image

  • noun a likeness in which left and right are reversed
    reflexion; reflection.
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Mirror plate

  • . (a) A flat glass mirror without a frame . (b) Flat glass used for making mirrors.
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mirror symmetry

  • noun (physics) parity is conserved in a universe in which the laws of physics are the same in a right-handed system of coordinates as in a left-handed system
    space-reflection symmetry; parity; conservation of parity.
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Mirror writing

  • a manner or form of backward writing, making manuscript resembling in slant and order of letters the reflection of ordinary writing in a mirror. The substitution of this manner of writing for the common manner is a symptom of some kinds of nervous disease.
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mirror-image relation

  • noun the relation of opposition between crystals or molecules that are reflections of one another
    enantiomorphism.
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outside mirror

  • noun car mirror that reflects the view at side and behind car
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Parabolic mirror

  • noun a parabolic reflector for light radiation
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  • (Opt.), a mirror having a paraboloidal surface which gives for parallel rays (as those from very distant objects) images free from aberration. It is used in reflecting telescopes.
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pier mirror

  • noun a large mirror between two windows
    pier glass.
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rearview mirror

  • noun car mirror that reflects the view out of the rear window
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