mirror image

noun

|Updated on: 30 Jul 2018

Examples: mirror image in a Sentence

Definition of mirror image

1 a : something that has its parts reversely arranged in comparison with another similar thing or that is reversed with reference to an intervening axis or plane

b : the direct opposite

2 : image 3

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Examples of mirror image in a Sentence

The left side of the building is a mirror image of the right.
looking at the idealistic intern, the elderly physician could not help but see the mirror image of himself 40 years earlier

Recent Examples of mirror image from the Web

The defense will be a mirror image of the head coach—aggressive and intelligent.

— steve brand, sandiegouniontribune.com, "Freddy Dunkle to lead Montgomery football program," 5 July 2018
For Belgium, their current haul is a mirror image – meaning the Three Lions find themselves ahead on fair play.

— SI.com, "90min World Cup Fan Diaries: Why England Fans in Russia Are Keen to Secure Second Place in Group G," 27 June 2018
The pattern is a mirror image of the picture before President Trump took office.

— ben casselman, New York Times, "Feeling Good About the Economy? You’re Probably a Republican," 15 June 2018
As indicated by their numeric names, the 5000 and 3000 towers are less-powerful, more-affordable versions of Acer's top-tier desktop, and both are designed to be smaller, yet almost mirror images of the Orion 9000.

— valentina palladino, Ars Technica, "Acer’s Chromebook Spin 13 tempts professionals to use Chrome OS at work," 24 May 2018
On the eve of adulthood, each man had suddenly been confronted with mirror images of himself that were not him, and uncovered a buried history that colored his entire upbringing.

— j.r. jones, Chicago Reader, "Triplets ripped from family in a Nazi-like experiment, probed in Three Identical Strangers," 5 July 2018
Still, some critics have wondered whether the series goes too far—whether its uncanny, occasionally prophetic mirror image of our own world provides enough meaning to justify sitting through all that misery and violence.

— laura bradley, HWD, "The Handmaid’s Tale Writer Breaks Down the Series’s Most Brutal Episode Yet," 20 June 2018
Local legends have named the bluff the place where Adam and Eve first met, due to its mirror image of biblical descriptions.

— amy aumick, OrlandoSentinel.com, "Explore Florida's Liberty County: Gorgeous views of the Apalachicola River," 7 May 2018
But the Big Bang also created antimatter, which is the opposite of regular matter, kind of like a mirror image of regular particles.

— avery thompson, Popular Mechanics, "New Experiment Hints at Why the Universe Is Made of Something Rather Than Nothing," 8 Aug. 2016

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First Known Use of mirror image

1885

in the meaning defined at sense 1a

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MIRROR IMAGE Defined for English Language Learners

mirror image

noun

Definition of mirror image for English Language Learners

: something that looks like something else but with its left and right sides reversed
: someone who looks like someone else

Medical Dictionary

mirror image

noun

medical Definition of mirror image

: something that has its parts reversely arranged in comparison with another similar thing or that is reversed with reference to an intervening axis or plane