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Definitions of mirage in various dictionaries:
noun - an optical illusion in which atmospheric refraction by a layer of hot air distorts or inverts reflections of distant objects
noun - something illusory and unattainable
An optical phenomenon that creates the illusion of water, often with inverted reflections of distant objects, and results from distortion of light by alternate layers of hot and cool air.
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| A name for a class of French fighter jets comes from this term meaning a desert optical illusion |
| A common one is "water" in the road, caused by light passing through air at varying temperatures |
| Named for King Arthur's legendary half sister a Fata Morgana is this type of illusion |
| You may see sharks swimming in the lobby aquarium in this Las Vegas hotel named for a desert illusion |
| An illusion, a fantasy, a pipe dream, or a Las Vegas hotel |
| A name for a class of French fighter jets comes from this term meaning a desert optical illusion |
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| an optical illusion caused by atmospheric conditions, especially the appearance of a sheet of water in a desert or on a hot road caused by the refraction of light from the sky by heated air. |
| An optical phenomenon that creates the illusion of water, often with inverted reflections of distant objects, and results from distortion of light by alternate layers of hot and cool air. Also called fata morgana. |
| Something illusory or insubstantial. |
| something illusory and unattainable |
| an optical illusion in which atmospheric refraction by a layer of hot air distorts or inverts reflections of distant objects |
| an image, produced by very hot air, of something that seems to be far away but does not really exist |
| a hope or wish that has no chance of being achieved: |
| an image, produced by very hot air, of something that seems to be far away but does not really exist: |
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A mirage is a naturally occurring optical phenomenon in which light rays bend to produce a displaced image of distant objects or the sky. The word comes to English via the French mirage, from the Latin mirari, meaning "to look at, to wonder at". This is the same root as for "mirror" and "to admire". * Mirages can be categorized as "inferior" (meaning lower), "superior" (meaning higher) and "Fata Morgana", one kind of superior mirage consisting of a series of unusually elaborate, vertically stacked images, which form one rapidly changing mirage. * In contrast to a hallucination, a mirage is a real optical phenomenon that can be captured on camera, since light rays are actually refracted to form the false image at the observer's location. What the image appears to represent, however, is determined by the interpretive faculties of the human mind. For example, inferior images on land are very easily mistaken for the reflections from a small body of water. |
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