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Reflect :: Reflect (v.) To bend back; to give a backwa/d turn to; to throw back; especially, to cause to return after striking upon any surface; as, a mirror reflects rays of light; polished metals reflect heat..

Mirroring :: Mirroring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mirro.

Camera Obscura :: Camera obscura () An apparatus in which the images of external objects, formed by a convex lens or a concave mirror, are thrown on a paper or other white surface placed in the focus of the lens or mirror within a darkened chamber, or box, so that the outlines may be traced..

Specular :: Specular (a.) Having the qualities of a speculum, or mirror; having a smooth, reflecting surface; as, a specular metal; a specular surface..

Polemoscope :: Polemoscope (n.) An opera glass or field glass with an oblique mirror arranged for seeing objects do not lie directly before the eye; -- called also diagonal, / side, opera glass..

Reflective :: Reflective (a.) Throwing back images; as, a reflective mirror..

Heliotrope :: Heliotrope (n.) An instrument for making signals to an observer at a distance, by means of the sun's rays thrown from a mirror..

Reflect :: Reflect (v.) To give back an image or likeness of; to mirror.

Image :: Image (n.) The figure or picture of any object formed at the focus of a lens or mirror, by rays of light from the several points of the object symmetrically refracted or reflected to corresponding points in such focus; this may be received on a screen, a photographic plate, or the retina of the eye, and viewed directly by the eye, or with an eyeglass, as in the telescope and microscope; the likeness of an object formed by reflection; as, to see one's image in a mirror..

Claude Lorraine Glass :: Claude Lorraine glass () A slightly convex mirror, commonly of black glass, used as a toy for viewing the reflected landscape..

Mirror :: Mirror (n.) A looking-glass or a speculum; any glass or polished substance that forms images by the reflection of rays of light.

Mirror :: Mirror (v. t.) To reflect, as in a mirror..

Glass-gazing :: Glass-gazing (a.) Given to viewing one's self in a glass or mirror; finical.

Ophthalmoscope :: Ophthalmoscope (n.) An instrument for viewing the interior of the eye, particularly the retina. Light is thrown into the eye by a mirror (usually concave) and the interior is then examined with or without the aid of a lens..

Heliostat :: Heliostat (n.) An instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, by which a sunbeam is made apparently stationary, by being steadily directed to one spot during the whole of its diurnal period; also, a geodetic heliotrope..

Tracheoscopy :: Tracheoscopy (n.) Examination of the interior of the trachea by means of a mirror.

Enoptomancy :: Enoptomancy (n.) Divination by the use of a mirror.

Larungoscope :: Larungoscope (n.) An instrument, consisting of an arrangement of two mirrors, for reflecting light upon the larynx, and for examining its image..

Mirrored :: Mirrored (imp. & p. p.) of Mirro.

Dipleidoscope :: Dipleidoscope (n.) An instrument for determining the time of apparent noon. It consists of two mirrors and a plane glass disposed in the form of a prism, so that, by the reflections of the sun's rays from their surfaces, two images are presented to the eye, moving in opposite directions, and coinciding at the instant the sun's center is on the meridian..

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