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- Dictionarymirage/mɪˈrɑːʒ/
noun
- 1. 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: "the surface of the road ahead rippled in the heat mirages"
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A mirage is an image of something that seems to be far away but does not really exist, caused by very hot air. Learn more about the meaning, pronunciation, and usage of mirage with examples and synonyms.
- English (US)
an image, produced by very hot air, of something that seems...
- Znaczenie Mirage, Definicja W Cambridge English Dictionary
MIRAGE definicja: 1. an image, produced by very hot air, of...
- Mirage Spanish Translation
MIRAGE translate: espejismo, espejismo, espejismo. Learn...
- Mirage: Polish Translation
MIRAGE translate: miraż, fatamorgana, złudzenie. Learn more...
- Mirage: French Translation
MIRAGE translate: mirage. Learn more in the Cambridge...
- Mirage: German Translation
mirage translate: die Luftspiegelung. Learn more in the...
- Mirage: Malay Translation
MIRAGE translate: logamaya. Learn more in the Cambridge...
- Traditional
MIRAGE translate: 海市蜃樓，蜃景，幻景, 幻想，妄想. Learn more in the...
- English (US)
A mirage is an optical effect that makes distant objects appear as water or a mirror, or something illusory and unattainable. Learn the etymology, synonyms, examples, and word history of mirage from Merriam-Webster.
noun. an optical phenomenon, especially in the desert or at sea, by which the image of some object appears displaced above, below, or to one side of its true position as a result of spatial variations of the index of refraction of air. something illusory, without substance or reality.
A mirage is an image of something that seems to be far away but does not really exist, caused by very hot air. Learn how to use the word in different contexts, see examples and find translations in other languages.
A mirage is an optical illusion of a distant object or water, often in the desert, caused by hot air. It can also mean something that is not real or true, but seems to be.
A mirage is created when light is distorted by layers of hot air. A mirage that looks like a body of water is actually an image of the sky. Even if you don’t spend much time in the desert, you may have noticed this phenomenon when driving on the highway on a hot day.
A mirage is an optical illusion that makes you see something that is not there, such as water in a desert. Learn how to use the word mirage in a sentence and find out its synonym illusion.
