mirror

     

A mirror is an object with a surface that has goo specular reflection; that is, it is smooth enough to form an image. The most familiar type of mirror is the plane mirror, which has a flat surface. Curved mirrors are also used, to produce magnified or demagnified images or focus light or simply distort the reflected image.

Trivia about mirror

  • A simple way to make a room seem bigger is to hang one of these glass objects on the wall
  • In ancient China & in classical antiquity, this accessory was made of polished metal, not glass
  • Breaking one is bad luck because not only is your image destroyed but possibly your soul too
  • Alice in Wonderland could tell you that a looking-glass is a synonym for one of these
  • The ghost of a woman in a hat seen at Ky.'s Seelbach Hilton 'til these objects she was reflected in were removed
  • Reflect on this one:"The Face in the" this, by Stephanie Tolan
  • Break one of these & supposedly you'll have 7 years' bad luck
  • An aberration in this part of the telescope was found shortly after launch; a 1993 Shuttle mission fixed it
  • It was thought breaking this damages one's soul; since vampires have no soul, they can't be seen in one
  • "Admire" has the same Latin root as this, a household item commonly used for admiration