what do you mean by lateral inversion?

The reversal experienced by an image formed in a plane (flat) mirror. Although the image is the correct way up, its left and right sides are transposed. The impression that most people have of their own face is based on the image that they see in a mirror; however, this is quite different from the face that other people see – for example, a hair parting that appears to be on the left when viewed in a mirror is seen by everyone else to be on the right.

Police vehicles and ambulances often have laterally-inverted warning signs painted on their fronts, which appear the correct way round to a driver looking through a rear-view mirror. 

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When you show ur right hand in mirror it appears as left and the same is with right.

This is called lateral inversion and the image is laterally inverted.

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 In a plane mirror the sides are interchanged , left appears to be right and right appears to be left. This is called lateral inversion. 

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Lateral inversion is the reveasal experienced by the image formed in a flat mirror.

Example: The effect produced by a mirror in reversing images from left to right

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Lateral inversion is the effect produced by a mirror in reversing images from left to right. As we observe our image on a plane mirror, we can see that our left side is at the right side of the image and our right side is at the left side of the image. It is also known as perversion

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Lateral inversion is the reveasal experienced by the image formed in a flat mirror.

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it means that when we see our image in mirror our left and is seen as a right handthis is known as lateral inverson.


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the phenomenon due to which the right side of an object appears left and left appears right is called lateral inverion.

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The phenomenon due to which the right hand side of an object appears as left hand side and vise-versa is called lateral inversion.

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it is a property of mirror in which the lettters looks opposite

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