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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