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catoptric

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek κατοπτικός (katoptikós), from κάτοπτρον (kátoptron, mirror).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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catoptric (not comparable)

  1. 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.

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