Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun mirror_symmetry

1 sense of mirror symmetry

Sense 1
parity, conservation of parity, space-reflection symmetry, mirror symmetry -- ((physics) parity is conserved in a universe in which the laws of physics are the same in a right-handed system of coordinates as in a left-handed system)
       => conservation -- ((physics) the maintenance of a certain quantities unchanged during chemical reactions or physical transformations)