rear-view mirror - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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rear-view mirror (plural rear-view mirrors)
- A mirror inside a vehicle that allows the driver to see the traffic behind.
- Synonym: (Australia, New Zealand) rear vision mirror
- Coordinate term: side-view mirror
- (figurative, by extension) The observer's perception of something that is past or has been surpassed.
Guilt is a powerful emotion in the moment, but it's easy to ignore once it's in the rear-view mirror.
mirror inside a vehicle giving view of the traffic behind
- Bulgarian: огледало за задно виждане n (ogledalo za zadno viždane)
- Catalan: retrovisor (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Czech: zpětné zrcátko n
- Danish: bakspejl n
- Dutch: achteruitkijkspiegel (nl) m
- Esperanto: retrospegulo
- Faroese: bakspegil m
- Finnish: taustapeili (fi)
- French: rétroviseur intérieur m
- Georgian: უკანა ხედის სარკე (uḳana xedis sarḳe), უკანა ხედვის სარკე (uḳana xedvis sarḳe)
- German: Rückspiegel (de) m
- Hungarian: (belső) visszapillantó tükör
- Icelandic: baksýnisspegill (is) m
- Indonesian: kaca spion tengah
- Irish: scáthán siar m
- Italian: retrovisore (it) m, specchietto retrovisore m
- Japanese: バックミラー (bakkumirā)
- Korean: 백미러 (baengmireo)
- Macedonian: ретрови́зор m (retrovízor)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: bakspeil, kjørespeil
- Nynorsk: bakspegel, køyrespegel
- Polish: lusterko wsteczne (pl) n
- Portuguese: retrovisor (pt) m, espelho retrovisor m
- Russian: зе́ркало за́днего ви́да n (zérkalo zádnevo vída)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ретро̀вӣзор m
- Roman: retròvīzor (sh) m
- Spanish: retrovisor (es) m, espejo retrovisor m
- Swedish: backspegel (sv) c
- Turkish: dikiz aynası (tr)