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Mirror Plane


A mirror plane is a plane of reflection symmetry. For the xy-plane, the corresponding symmetry operation is (x,y,z)|->(x,y,-z) and is equivalent to 2^_, where the bar denotes an improper rotation.


See also

Mirror Image, Mirror Pair, Mirror Symmetry

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Mirror Plane." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/MirrorPlane.html

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