Dictionary🇨🇳 Chinese → 🇺🇸 English

镜像

jìngxiàng

Description

"镜像"就是像镜子里看到的样子,左右是相反的。

"镜像" means the way things appear in a mirror, with left and right reversed.

在电脑里,"镜像"也可以指一个文件的完整复制。

In computers, "镜像" can also refer to an exact copy of a file.

Meanings

镜像jìngxiàng

mirror image; reversed reflection

这两个图形是镜像的。

These two shapes are mirror images.

镜像jìngxiàng

disk/system image (full digital copy)

我下载了一个系统镜像。

I downloaded a system image.

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Notes

  • Etymology

    镜 (mirror) + 像 (image), literally "mirror image".

  • Nuance

    technical sense (disk image) is very common in computing contexts.

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