mirror image: Meaning and Definition of

mir'ror im'age

Pronunciation: [key]
  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.
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