WORD OF THE DAY: Mirage [mi-rahzh] MEANING: noun 1. an optical phenomenon, especially in the desert or at sea, by which the image of some object appears displaced above, below, or to one side of its true position as a result of spatial variations of the index of refraction of air. 2. something illusory, without substance or reality. 3. ( initial capital letter ) Military . any of a series of supersonic, delta-wing, multirole French fighter-bombers. Synonyms illusion, phantom, fancy. EXAMPLE: Our memory of those events is a mirage we call the past.
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