mirages in English

noun
1
an optical illusion caused by atmospheric conditions, especially the appearance of a sheet of water in a desert or on a hot road caused by the refraction of light from the sky by heated air.
The heat rippled watery mirages on the road, teasing my hot hand with illusory coolness.
synonyms:optical illusionhallucinationphantasmagoriaapparitionfantasychimeravisionfigment of the/one's imaginationphantasm
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1. Rainbows and mirages are examples of optical phenomena.

2. 27 The train sped on; the broad fields with their blue-green border trees,[www.Sentencedict.com] and the villages nestling in their shade flew past in a stream of pictures which melted away like a flood of mirages.

3. The results are applied to such phenomena as RAINBOWS, mirages, scintillation, wind sounds and echoes, and to the use of light and sound in remote sensing, as in laser or acoustic RADAR, cloud photography and the sonic anemometer-thermometer.

4. Listen, all of you, to what will later be said of the Forsaken by one of their descendants, who fled the desert, its mirages, its impudent winds, its desiccating winds, its deceitful wells, its shifting dunes, its devils everywhere Aprowl; who preferred distant lands like Mortagne, cold and icy, where white, sometimes very white people live