The phrase "a mirror reflection" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an image or likeness that is seen in a mirror, often implying a direct or exact representation.
Example: "The painting was so lifelike that it seemed to capture a mirror reflection of the landscape outside."
Alternatives: "a reflective image" or "a mirrored likeness".
A mirror reflection might prompt you to look at the thing being reflected; an imitation keeps your eyes on the copy alone.
But their portrait is a mirror reflection at which his mother stares.
"They're sort of a mirror reflection of us," added Mr. DiNizio, 54, who lives in Scotch Plains.
During the mirror test, the researchers placed a mark on the fish in a location that could only be seen in a mirror reflection.
But as Dworkin's carefully reasoned argument shows, liberalism can make good on that proclamation only by (re)making the object of its protection into a mirror reflection of its own limitations.
Parity, the idea that the laws of physics are the same when left and right are switched, as in a mirror reflection, is one of the most fundamental symmetries of space-time as we know it.
In "The Good Night," the would-be lucid dreamer performs a series of reality checks: he flips a light switch on and off (light in dreams is not usually nuanced); looks in a mirror (reflections in dreams are often obscured); and stares at his hands (in dreams one's hands may be elongated or have fewer fingers).
These are: reflection of light from a plane mirror moving at constant velocity, reflection of light from a moving cylinder, reflection of light from a vibrating mirror, reflection of sound from a plane wall and dipole sound generation by an oscillating cylinder in an inviscid flow.
The result is a past that resembles an episode of The Flintstones, which is a funhouse mirror reflection of The Jetsons.
Frodo and Sam struggling to reach Mordor is a cracked mirror reflection of the young soldiers caught in the blasted landscape and slaughter of trench warfare on the Western Front.
But now, Black Dice are sounding something like classic rock, or at least a funhouse mirror reflection of it.
