catoptric
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Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek κατοπτικός (katoptikós), from κάτοπτρον (kátoptron, “mirror”).
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Adjective edit
catoptric (not comparable)
- Of, relating to, or produced by mirrors or reflections.
- 1989, Nick Cave, And the Ass Saw the Angel:
- It leaned, toppled forward, and loomed out over the water's grim catoptric surface that stretched before her, and then completing a half-somersault plunged headlong into the shallows of the abysmal, baptismal bilge.