mirror image

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.

Origin:
1880–85
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Mirror image is always a great word to know.
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the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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mirror image
 
n
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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