mirror : Idioms & Phrases

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

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

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• (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.

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• (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.

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

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• . Same as Escutcheon, 2.

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• 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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