MIRRORED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mirrored mean? 

• MIRRORED (adjective)
  The adjective MIRRORED has 1 sense:

1. like or characteristic of a mirror image

  Familiarity information: MIRRORED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MIRRORED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Like or characteristic of a mirror image

Similar:

reflected ((especially of incident sound or light) bent or sent back)

 Context examples 

The successful transfer of glucose in the device mirrored what occurs in the body.

(Researchers design placenta-on-a-chip to better understand pregnancy, NIH)

Frankenstein, your son, your kinsman, your early, much-loved friend; he who would spend each vital drop of blood for your sakes, who has no thought nor sense of joy except as it is mirrored also in your dear countenances, who would fill the air with blessings and spend his life in serving you—he bids you weep, to shed countless tears; happy beyond his hopes, if thus inexorable fate be satisfied, and if the destruction pause before the peace of the grave have succeeded to your sad torments!

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Tom glanced around to see if we mirrored his unbelief. But we were all looking at Gatsby.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hatboxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of windshields that mirrored a dozen suns.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)