"mirror image" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: mirror images [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} mirror image (plural mirror images)
  1. An image that is reversed from left to right, as it would appear if seen in a mirror; a reflection. Wikipedia link: mirror image Related terms: chirality, enantiomer, stereoisomerism Translations (reversed image): 鏡像 (Chinese Mandarin), 镜像 (jìngxiàng) (Chinese Mandarin), spejlbillede [neuter] (Danish), spiegelbeeld [neuter] (Dutch), wederbeeld [neuter] (Dutch), peegelpilt (Estonian), peilikuva (Finnish), Spiegelbild [neuter] (German), tükörkép (Hungarian), spegilmynd [feminine] (Icelandic), spoguļattēls [masculine] (Latvian), odbicie lustrzane [neuter] (Polish), зерка́льное отраже́ние (zerkálʹnoje otražénije) [neuter] (Russian), imagen especular [feminine] (Spanish), spegelbild [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-mirror_image-en-noun-DFyXLK1m Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations

Inflected forms

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          "code": "da",
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          "sense": "reversed image",
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            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "зерка́льное отраже́ние"
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "reversed image",
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          ],
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          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "reversed image",
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      "word": "鏡像"
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      "code": "da",
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      "sense": "reversed image",
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        "neuter"
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      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "reversed image",
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "reversed image",
      "word": "peilikuva"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "reversed image",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Spiegelbild"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "reversed image",
      "word": "tükörkép"
    },
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      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "reversed image",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "spegilmynd"
    },
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      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "reversed image",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "spoguļattēls"
    },
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "reversed image",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "odbicie lustrzane"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zerkálʹnoje otražénije",
      "sense": "reversed image",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "зерка́льное отраже́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "reversed image",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "imagen especular"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "reversed image",
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      "word": "spegelbild"
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