virtual image

1. 1.

   a reflected optical image (as seen in a plane mirror)

   Broaderreflection

Questions about virtual image

What does virtual image mean?

virtual image means "a reflected optical image (as seen in a plane mirror)".

Is virtual image a common word?

virtual image is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.