Reflection

Flip a figure across a mirror line — the only basic rigid transformation that reverses orientation.

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Reflection

A reflection across a line $\ell$ maps each point to its mirror image, with $\ell$ as the perpendicular bisector of the segment joining the point to its image.

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Flip a figure across a mirror line — the only basic rigid transformation that reverses orientation.

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