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Rearview Mirror

Definition: Rearview Mirror

Rearview Mirror

Noun

1. Car mirror that reflects the view out of the rear window.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Modern Usage: Rearview Mirror

DomainUsage

Lyrics

Starin' at the faces in her rearview mirror ("Only In America"; performing artist: Brooks & Dunn)

Butterfly decal, rearview mirror, dogging the scene ("What's The Frequency, Kenneth?"; performing artist: R.E.M.)

Movie/TV Titles

Rearview Mirror (1984)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Rearview Mirror

DomainTitle

Books

  

Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Rearview Mirror

Computer Images:
Rearview Mirror

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Rearview Mirror

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

rearview mirror

63

rearview mirror compass

7

auto rearview mirror

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Rearview Mirror

Language Translations for "rearview mirror"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

visszapillantó tükör (driving mirror, rear-view mirror). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

バチカン宮殿 (Bacchus, bacillus, back, back charge, back combing, back issue, back margin, back music, back screen, back-band, backbone, back-drop, backfire, backgammon, background, background music, backhand, backing, backless, backlog, back-number, backpack, backpacking, back-propagation, backs, backskin, backslash, backspace, backspin, backstab, backstop, backstretch, backstroke, backswing, backtrack, back-tracking, backup, badge, BADGE system, bag, batch, batch size, bathyscaphe, batter in the hole, buckle, bug, bugging, merchandise obtained by buying out the inventories of failed retailers instead of going through normal wholesale channels, suplex, Vatican). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

バックミラー . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

earviewray irrormay

   

Spanish

  

espejo retrovisor (mirror). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Rearview Mirror

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Cyprinus carpio. (various references)

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Alternative Orthography: Rearview Mirror


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 65 61 72 76 69 65 77      4D 69 72 72 6F 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100101 01100001 01110010 01110110 01101001 01100101 01110111 00100000 01001101 01101001 01110010 01110010 01101111 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#97 &#114 &#118 &#105 &#101 &#119 &#32 &#77 &#105 &#114 &#114 &#111 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 0061 0072 0076 0069 0065 0077      004D 0069 0072 0072 006F 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

52716784887571892477584848184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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