catoptric

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κατοπτρικός (katoptrikós), from κάτοπτρον (kátoptron, “mirror”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kaˈtɒptɹɪk/

Adjective

catoptric (not comparable)

1. Of, relating to, or produced by mirrors or reflections.
   • 1989, Nick Cave, And the Ass Saw the Angel:

     It leaned, toppled forward, and loomed out over the water's grim catoptric surface that stretched before her, and then completing a half-somersault plunged headlong into the shallows of the abysmal, baptismal bilge.

Anagrams

• protactic