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antimirror

antimirror adjective: opposed to mirrors.

antimirror: opposed to mirrors
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Adjective

antimirror (comparative more antimirror, superlative most antimirror)

  1. Opposed to mirrors.
    • We had never suspected the existence of a silly antimirror law, and if it still exists in any hospital we trust the management will hasten to rescind it.1902 June 21, “Mirrors for Hospital Patients”, in American Medicine, volume 3, page 1032

Noun

antimirror (plural antimirrors)

  1. An antisymmetric operation; the operation of reflection combined with a reversal of some sort (such as color, time, size, etc); the reflection of opposites.
    • The conditions are often signs of a triumphant hero's beginnings, and indeed will almost reflect, in the antimirror, Cordelia's fate.1992, Marvin Rosenberg, The Masks of King Lear
    • When an antimirror plane is positioned between the two halves of the Herman's logo, or between the man and woman in the Russian sculpture, there is no geometrical correspondence between the two parts.1994, István Hargittai, Magdolna Hargittai, Symmetry: A Unifying Concept, page 116
  2. Something that inhibits reflection; something that obscures or absorbs light instead of reflecting.
    • The current disruption simulation was performed with a long "antimirror" trap 2MK-200 at 10 MW/cm² flow density.1994, Plasma Physics Reports - Volume 20, page 931
    • Point is, the west wall had to have zero albedo, no reflection, the opposite of the Gymsealed floor. Actually, that's how I wanted my face to be. The Yid called it a "Light Sponge" or an "antimirror."2007, Eliot Fintushel, Breakfast with the Ones You Love

Examples of antimirror in a sentence

  • A physical system may be invariant under mirror operations, but also under antimirror operations, that is mirror operations combined with time reversal.1994, American Journal of Physics - Volume 62, page 328:
  • The veil, in some of the poems I have discussed, functions as a kind of antimirror: a representation of the hidden side of nature.2013, Andrew Mattison, The Unimagined in the English Renaissance, page 155:

Forms of antimirror

Adjective
comparativemore antimirror
superlativemost antimirror
Noun
pluralantimirrors

Origin of antimirror

From anti- + mirror.

Words formed from antimirror

Phrases with antimirror

Questions about antimirror

What does antimirror mean?
Antimirror means opposed to mirrors.
How do you use antimirror in a sentence?
A physical system may be invariant under mirror operations, but also under antimirror operations, that is mirror operations combined with time reversal.
What part of speech is antimirror?
Antimirror can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near antimirror in the dictionary

  1. antimins
  2. antiminsia
  3. antiminsion
  4. antiminsions
  5. antimir
  6. antimirror
  7. antimirror neuron
  8. antimirror neurons
  9. antimirrors
  10. antimirs
  11. antimiscarriage

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