Phrase Hound found 115 phrases and 33 compound words that contain mirror. The most common are listed below. Open mirror in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 115
- mirror imageAn image that is reversed from left to right, as it would appear if seen in a mirror; a reflection.
- rear-view mirrorA mirror inside a vehicle that allows the driver to see the traffic behind.
- mirror sitesplural of mirror site: A smooth surface, usually made of glass with reflective material painted on the underside, that reflects light so as to give an image of what is in front of it.
- mirror siteSynonym of mirror: A smooth surface, usually made of glass with reflective material painted on the underside, that reflects light so as to give an image of what is in front of it.
- Mirror Mirror
- man in the mirrorOneself, one's reflection, usually used in the context of introspection and self-reflection on the solution to a problem.
- wing mirrorEither of a pair of mirrors on the sides of a car or other vehicle that enable the driver to see to the side and behind.
- rearview mirrorAlternative form of rear-view mirror: A mirror inside a vehicle that allows the driver to see the traffic behind.
- magic mirrorA divinatory mirror in which a person sees images or scenes.
- black mirrorA mirror used to practice divination or other magic rituals.
- one-way mirrorA mirror reflecting images on one side and transparent on the other, often used by the police during interrogations.
- mirror universeAn alternative universe within a fictional work, separate from the universe normally depicted, where familiar characters and settings are present but in a systematically "reversed" manner, often by being evil or otherwise hostile.
- side-view mirrorSynonym of wing mirror: Either of a pair of mirrors on the sides of a car or other vehicle that enable the driver to see to the side and behind.
- mirror ballA disco ball.
- mirror punishmentA form of punishment that reflects the nature of the transgression that it punishes.
- men in the mirrorplural of man in the mirror: Oneself, one's reflection, usually used in the context of introspection and self-reflection on the solution to a problem.
- mirror canonA canon in which the leading voice is played alongside its own inversion, i.e. upside down.
- mirror imagesplural of mirror image: An image that is reversed from left to right, as it would appear if seen in a mirror; a reflection.
- mirror lifeA hypothetical form of life with mirror-reflected molecular building blocks; for example, many biomolecules occurring in nature are the L-form, whereas systems using the D-form are conceivable but also potentially dangerous to life as we …
- mirror literatureSynonym of speculum literature: A medieval literary genre, popular from the 12th through the 16th centuries, inspired by the urge to encompass encyclopedic knowledge within a single work.
- mirror matterA hypothetical mirrored counterpart to ordinary physical matter.
- mirror stageA concept concerning the structure of human subjectivity and the imaginary order in the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan.
- mirror testA test to determine whether a non-human animal possesses the ability of self-recognition, carried out by introducing the animal to a mirror, painting a mark on the animal, and observing whether it touches the mark on its own body after …
- mirror theoryA particular approach to the architecture of the language organ, based on the principle that the syntactic relation 'X complement of Y' is identical to an inverse-order morphological relation 'X specifier of Y'.
- mirror willA pair of identical documents executed by two people in order to ensure identical dispositions of their property upon the death of either or both.
Compound words 33
- mirrorfulThe amount reflected by a mirror.
- antimirrorOpposed to mirrors.
- handmirrorA handheld mirror.
- mirrorlessWithout a mirror.
- mismirrorTo provide a distorted reflection of
- MirrorverseThe Mirror Universe of Star Trek, a dark parallel universe to the main setting of the franchise, in which humans are brutal, despotic conquerors.
- bemirroredReflected, as in a mirror.
- mirrorshadessunglasses with a reflective coating on the outside of the lenses
- metamirrorA surface composed of single planar array of electrically small bianisotropic inclusions
- mirrortreeA technique in which a high correlation of evolutionary histories of two proteins is used as an indicator to predict protein interactions; a graphical representation of this