Meaning of black mirror | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A technocratic dystopia of the kind featured in the television series Black Mirror.
   Internet, derogatory, excessive, uncountable
2. A mirror used to practice divination or other magic rituals.
3. Synonym of Claude glass.
4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, mirror.

Examples

“She had marvellous eyes; great, wide-open, and as black and soft as velvet, with a mysterious depth. To look in them was like gazing at a black mirror such as Doctor Dee used in his wizard rites.”

“Thus, when Manet speaks of using the black mirror—and X-ray examinations of the head seem to confirm his statements—he does so, apparently, in the manner of those Renaissance painters who saw it as a “judge” and “master”.”

“This AI-generated uncanny-valley metaverse avatar is straight out of Black Mirror.”

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