mirror A mirror or looking glass is an object that reflects an image. Light that bounces off a mirror will show an image of whatever is in front of it, when focused through the lens of the eye or a camera. Mirrors reverse the direction of the im ...

is an object whose surface reflects an image. Mirror, mirrors or MIRROR may also refer to: *

Reflection (mathematics) In mathematics, a reflection (also spelled reflexion) is a mapping from a Euclidean space to itself that is an isometry with a hyperplane as a set of fixed points; this set is called the axis (in dimension 2) or plane (in dimension 3) of re ...

, creating the mirror image of a shape across a point, line or plane * The "silver mirror", created in chemical tests involving

Tollens' reagent Tollens' reagent (chemical formula Ag(NH3)2OH) is a chemical reagent used to distinguish between aldehydes and ketones along with some alpha-hydroxy ketones which can tautomerize into aldehydes. The reagent consists of a solution of silver nit ...

Current mirror A current mirror is a circuit designed to copy a current through one active device by controlling the current in another active device of a circuit, keeping the output current constant regardless of loading. The current being "copied" can be, and ...

, an electric circuit designed to copy a current through one active device by controlling the current in another active device of a circuit *

Magnetic mirror A magnetic mirror, known as a magnetic trap (магнитный захват) in Russia and briefly as a pyrotron in the US, is a type of magnetic confinement device used in fusion power to trap high temperature plasma using magnetic fields. T ...

, a magnetic field configuration *

Acoustic mirror An acoustic mirror is a passive device used to reflect and focus (concentrate) sound waves. Parabolic acoustic mirrors are widely used in parabolic microphones to pick up sound from great distances, employed in surveillance and reporting of ...

, a device used to focus and amplify sound waves

Geography

* Mirror, Alberta, a place in Canada * Mirror Lakes, a set of lakes in New Zealand

Computing

* AirPlay Mirroring, an iOS 5 feature for wireless video streaming *

Disk mirroring In data storage, disk mirroring is the replication of logical disk volumes onto separate physical hard disks in real time to ensure continuous availability. It is most commonly used in RAID 1. A mirrored volume is a complete logical represen ...

, replicating the content of an entire storage disk *

Mirror site Mirror sites or mirrors are replicas of other websites or any network node. The concept of mirroring applies to network services accessible through any protocol, such as HTTP or FTP. Such sites have different URLs than the original site, but hos ...

, an Internet server which replicates content available elsewhere * Mirror (programming), a type of reflection mechanism in programming *

Port mirroring Port mirroring is used on a network switch to send a copy of network packets seen on one switch port (or an entire VLAN) to a network monitoring connection on another switch port. This is commonly used for network appliances that require monitor ...

, replicating network packets for diagnostic purposes

Books and publications

*''Mirrors'', novel by

Naguib Mahfouz Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha ( arz, نجيب محفوظ عبد العزيز ابراهيم احمد الباشا, ; 11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature. M ...

* ''Mirror'', a short poem by American author

Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath (; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, '' Th ...

* ''

Daily Mirror The ''Daily Mirror'' is a British national daily tabloid. Founded in 1903, it is owned by parent company Reach plc. From 1985 to 1987, and from 1997 to 2002, the title on its masthead was simply ''The Mirror''. It had an average daily print c ...

'', a newspaper based in the United Kingdom * ''

Montreal Mirror ''Montreal Mirror'' or just ''Mirror'' was a free English language alternative newsweekly based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada which was distributed every Thursday. It had a circulation of 70,000 and reached a quarter of a million readers per week. ...

'', an alternative weekly newspaper based in Quebec, Canada * '' Mumbai Mirror'', a compact daily newspaper based in Mumbai, India * ''Mirror'' (Pakistani magazine), a Pakistani social magazine published from 1951 to 1972 * ''

Australian Woman's Mirror ''The Australian Woman's Mirror'' was an Australian weekly women's magazine published by '' The Bulletin'' magazine in Sydney, between 1924 and 1961. History The first issue of the magazine was published on 25 November 1924 with the following ...

'', an Australian weekly magazine published from 1924 to 1961 * ''The Mirror'' (Western Australia), published from 1921 until 1956

Film

* Mirror Releasing, now United Artists Releasing, a film distribution company * ''Mirror'' (film), a 1975 Russian art film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky * ''Mirrors'' (1978 film), a horror film by Noel Black * ''Mirrors'' (2007 film), a Canadian short drama film * ''Mirrors'' (2008 film), a supernatural horror film starring Kiefer Sutherland * The Mirror (disambiguation) ** ''The Mirror'' (1997 film), a 1997 Iranian film ** ''The Mirror'' (2014 film), a British found footage horror film

TV

* "

Mirror A mirror or looking glass is an object that reflects an image. Light that bounces off a mirror will show an image of whatever is in front of it, when focused through the lens of the eye or a camera. Mirrors reverse the direction of the im ...

", a 2008 episode from the television series ''Legend of the Seeker'' * ''Mirror'' ident, a 2007 television ident for BBC Two

Music

* Mirror (multimedia project), a multimedia project created by Thomas Anselmi *

Mirror (group) Mirror (commonly stylised as MIRROR) is a Hong Kong Cantopop boy group formed through ViuTV's reality talent show '' Good Night Show - King Maker'' in 2018. The group consists of twelve members: Frankie Chan, Alton Wong, Lokman Yeung, Stanley ...

, a Hong Kong boy band * Mirrors (Ohio band), an early 1970s proto-punk/psychedelic garage band from Cleveland, OH *

Mirrors (band) Mirrors are an England, English synthpop band originating from Brighton who formed in 2008. The band consists of James New (lead vocals and synthesizers), James Arguile (synthesizers) and Josef Page (electronic drums). They prefer to describe ...

, a synthpop band from Brighton

Albums

* ''Mirror'' (Emitt Rhodes album), 1971 * ''Mirror'' (Graham Central Station album), 1976 * ''Mirror'', a 1988 album by One 2 Many * ''Mirror'' (The Rapture album), 1999 * ''Mirror'' (D'espairsRay album), 2007 * ''Mirror'', a 2008 album by I'm Not a Gun * ''Mirror'' (Charles Lloyd album), 2009 * ''Mirror'' (Jacky Terrasson album), 2007 * ''Mirrors'' (Blue Öyster Cult album), or the title song * ''Mirrors'' (Peggy Lee album), 1975 * ''Mirrors'' (Sandra album), 1986 * ''Mirrors'' (Joe Chambers album), 1999 * ''Mirrors'' (Misery Signals album), or its title song, "Mirrors" *'' Mirrors EP'', a 2009 EP by alternative rock band Young Guns *''Mirrors'', an album by Miki Furukawa

Songs

* "Mirror" (Gackt song), 2000 * "Mirror" (Lil Wayne song), 2011 * "Mirror" (Sigrid song), 2021 * "Mirrors" (Natalia Kills song), 2010 * "Mirrors" (Justin Timberlake song), 2013 * "Mirrors" (Tohoshinki song), 2019 * "Mirror" (Porter Robinson song), 2020 * "Mirror", by Bazzi from the album '' Cosmic'', 2018 * "Mirror", a 1996 song by X-Perience from the album ''Magic Fields'' * "Mirrors", a 2014 song from ''

White Noise In signal processing, white noise is a random signal having equal intensity at different frequencies, giving it a constant power spectral density. The term is used, with this or similar meanings, in many scientific and technical disciplines ...

'' by PVRIS * "Mirrors", a 2017 song by Niall Horan from the album '' Flicker''

Other

Mirror stage The mirror stage (french: stade du miroir) is a concept in the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan. The mirror stage is based on the belief that infants recognize themselves in a mirror (literal) or other symbolic contraption which induces appe ...

, a psychological development step *

Mirror armour Mirror armour (russian: зерцало, , meaning "mirror"; zh, 护心镜, , meaning "protect-heart mirror"), sometimes referred to as disc armour or as or ( fa, چهاﺮآﻳنه meaning "four mirrors"; whence kk, шар-айна, ), was ...

, a type of cuirass *

Mirror (dinghy) The Mirror is a type of popular sailing dinghy with more than 70,000 built. The Mirror was named after the ''Daily Mirror'', a UK newspaper with a largely working-class distribution. The Mirror was from the start promoted as an affordable boat, ...

, a small boat