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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  
n.  An image that has its parts arranged with a reversal of right and left, as it would appear if seen in a mirror.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: mirror image
Function: noun
: something that has its parts reversely arranged in comparison with another similar thing or that is reversed with reference toan intervening axis or plane
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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