Mirror

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mirror \Mir"ror\, n. [OE. mirour, F. miroir, OF. also mireor,
     fr. (assumed) LL. miratorium, fr. mirare to look at, L.
     mirari to wonder. See {Marvel}, and cf. {Miracle},
     {Mirador}.]
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     1. A looking-glass or a speculum; any glass or polished


        substance that forms images by the reflection of rays of
        light.
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              And in her hand she held a mirror bright,
              Wherein her face she often view[`e]d fair.
                                                    --Spenser.
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     2. That which gives a true representation, or in which a true
        image may be seen; hence, a pattern; an exemplar.
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              She is mirour of all courtesy.        --Chaucer.
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              O goddess, heavenly bright,
              Mirror of grace and majesty divine.   --Spenser.
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     3. (Zool.) See {Speculum}.
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     {Mirror carp} (Zool.), a domesticated variety of the carp,
        having only three or fur rows of very large scales side.
        
  
     {Mirror plate}.
        (a) A flat glass mirror without a frame.
        (b) Flat glass used for making mirrors.
  
     {Mirror writing}, 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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mirror \Mir"ror\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mirrored}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Mirroring}.]
     1. To reflect, as in a mirror.
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     2. To copy or duplicate; to mimic or imitate; as, the files
        at Project Gutenberg were mirrored on several other ftp
        sites around the world.
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     3. To have a close resemblance to; as, his opinions often
        mirrored those of his wife.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mirror
       n 1: polished surface that forms images by reflecting light
       2: a faithful depiction or reflection; "the best mirror is an
          old friend"
       v 1: reflect as if in a mirror; "The smallest pond at night
            mirrors the firmament above"
       2: reflect or resemble; "The plane crash in Milan mirrored the
          attack in the World Trade Center"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  151 Moby Thesaurus words for "mirror":
     acme, act like, adumbrate, affect, antetype, antitype, ape,
     apotheosis, appear like, approach, approximate, archetype, assume,
     be like, be redolent of, bear resemblance, beau ideal, best type,
     biotype, body forth, borrow, bring to mind, call to mind, call up,
     cheval glass, chorus, classic, classic example, come close,
     come near, compare with, concave mirror, convex mirror, copy,
     correspond, counterfeit, crib, criterion, cynosure, demonstrate,
     depict, distorting mirror, ditto, do, do like, echo, ego ideal,
     emblematize, embody, epitome, epitomize, evoke, example, exemplar,
     exemplify, fake, favor, figure, follow, foreshadow, forge,
     fugleman, fugler, genotype, glass, go like, good example,
     hand mirror, hero, hoke, hoke up, ideal, illustrate, image,
     imitate, imitatee, impersonate, incarnate, lead, look like,
     looking glass, make like, man of men, masterpiece, masterwork,
     match, mimic, mirror image, model, near, nearly reproduce,
     nonpareil, not tell apart, original, paradigm, paragon, parallel,
     partake of, pattern, pattern of perfection, personate, personify,
     picture, pier glass, plagiarize, precedent, prefigure, pretypify,
     project, prototype, quintessence, realize, rear-view mirror,
     reecho, reflect, reflection, reflector, remind one of, repeat,
     replication, represent, representation, representative, reproduce,
     reproduction, resemble, rule, savor of, seeing glass, seem like,
     send back, shadow, shadow forth, shaving mirror, shining example,
     simulate, smack of, sound like, speculum, stack up with, standard,
     suggest, symbolize, take after, type, type species, type specimen,
     typify, urtext, very model, window mirror
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  mirror
       
          1.  Writing duplicate data to more than one
          device (usually two {hard disks}), in order to protect against
          loss of data in the event of device failure.  This technique
          may be implemented in either hardware (sharing a {disk
          controller} and cables) or in software.  It is a common
          feature of {RAID} systems.
       
          Several {operating systems} support software disk mirroring or
          {disk-duplexing}, e.g. {Novell NetWare}.
       
          See also {Redundant Array of Independent Disks}.
       
          Interestingly, when this technique is used with {magnetic
          tape} storage systems, it is usually called "twinning".
       
          A less expensive alternative, which only limits the amount of
          data loss, is to make regular {backup}s from a single disk to
          {magnetic tape}.
       
          2.  An {archive site} or {web site} which keeps a
          copy of some or all files at another site so as to make them
          more quickly available to local users and to reduce the load
          on the source site.  Such mirroring is usually done for
          specific whole directories or files on a specific remote
          server as opposed to a {cache} or {proxy server} which keeps
          copies of everything that is requested via it.
       
          For example, src.doc.ic.ac.uk is the main UK mirror for the
          {GNU} archive at gnu.org.  There are also several
          {mirrors of this dictionary
          (http://www.foldoc.org/foldoc/mirrors.html)}.
       
          (1998-06-11)