What is "mirage"

Mirage \Mi`rage"\, n. [F., fr. mirer to look at carefully, to aim, se mirer to look at one's self in a glass, to reflect, to be reflected, LL. mirare to look at. See Mirror.] An optical effect, sometimes seen on the ocean, but more frequently in deserts, due to total reflection of light at the surface common to two strata of air differently heated. The reflected image is seen, commonly in an inverted position, while the real object may or may not be in sight. When the surface is horizontal, and below the eye, the appearance is that of a sheet of water in which the object is seen reflected; when the reflecting surface is above the eye, the image is seen projected against the sky. The fata Morgana and looming are species of mirage.

By the mirage uplifted the land floats vague in the ether, Ships and the shadows of ships hang in the motionless air.
--Longfellow.

"optical illusion of water in sandy deserts," 1812, from French mirage (1753), from se mirer "to be reflected," from Latin mirare (see mirror (n.)). Or the French word is from Latin mirus "wonderful" (see miracle). Similarity to Arabic mi'raj has been noted, but the usual sense of that word is "ladder, stairs; climb, ascent," and the resemblance appears to be coincidental. The standard Arabic for "a desert mirage" is sarāb.

n. 1 An optical phenomenon in which light is refracted through a layer of hot air close to the ground, giving the appearance of there being refuge in the distance. 2 (context figuratively English) An illusion. vb. (context transitive English) To cause to appear as or like a mirage.

1. n. an optical illusion in which atmospheric refraction by a layer of hot air distorts or inverts reflections of distant objects

2. something illusory and unattainable

A mirage is a naturally occurring optical phenomenon in which light rays are bent to produce a displaced image of distant objects or the sky. The word comes to English via the French mirage, from the Latin mirari, meaning "to look at, to wonder at". This is the same root as for " mirror" and "to admire".

In contrast to a hallucination, a mirage is a real optical phenomenon that can be captured on camera, since light rays are actually refracted to form the false image at the observer's location. What the image appears to represent, however, is determined by the interpretive faculties of the human mind. For example, inferior images on land are very easily mistaken for the reflections from a small body of water.

Mirages can be categorized as "inferior" (meaning lower), "superior" (meaning higher) and " Fata Morgana", one kind of superior mirage consisting of a series of unusually elaborate, vertically stacked images, which form one rapidly changing mirage.

A mirage is an optical phenomenon.

Mirage(s) or The Mirage may also refer to:

Mirage is the name of two DC Comics characters. The first was a minor villain of Batman. The second is a heroine who is affiliated with the Teen Titans.

Mirage is the name of several fictional characters from the Transformers series. Mirage is one of the most re-used names in the Transformers series, and is almost entirely synonymous with characters possessing Formula One racing car alternate modes. The first Mirage was introduced in 1984 as an Autobot spy.

Mirage was the first official block structure in Magic: The Gathering. This new block structure consisted of three expansion sets and would continue for nearly two decades, finally ending with Khans of Tarkir in 2014. The new block structure also set up the precedent that the first set in the block also became the name for the entire block. Mirage block consisted of three sets: Mirage, Visions and Weatherlight.

Mirage is an album by the Arizona alternative rock band Meat Puppets.

The album was reissued in 1999 by Rykodisc with five additional bonus tracks, including early demos of "The Mighty Zero," " I Am a Machine" and "Liquified" as well as a cover of the Elvis Presley song "Rubberneckin'" and the previously unreleased "Grand Intro." As an added bonus, this album includes an "Enhanced CD" partition for play on home computers. Mirage offers the promotional video for "Get On Down." Drummer Derrick Bostrom has referred to the album as their " psychedelic epic".

Mirage is the eighth album by Klaus Schulze. It was originally released in 1977, and in 2005 was the first Schulze album reissued by Revisited Records. A slightly different version of "Velvet Voyage" is included on the reissue. An excerpt from "In cosa crede chi non crede?", the bonus track on the reissue, was previously released on Trailer (1999), a compilation CD released to promote the release of Schulze's 50-disc CD box set The Ultimate Edition (2000).

Mirage is the 13th studio album by Fleetwood Mac, released on June 18, 1982. Following a hiatus of over a year after the completion of the worldwide Tusk tour, the band temporarily relocated to Château d'Hérouville in France to record a new album. By this time Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham had each commenced a solo career, the former to multi-platinum #1 success with 1981's Bella Donna, the latter faring not as well with his first outing Law and Order (US Billboard #32).

Mirage found the band venturing further into radio-friendly soft rock than it had in any of its previous incarnations. It stood in stark contrast to its highly experimental predecessor, 1979's Tusk. Mirage yielded several hit singles: " Hold Me" (which peaked at #4 on the US Billboard Pop Chart, remaining there for seven weeks), " Love in Store" (#22 US Pop Chart), " Oh Diane" (which reached #9 in the UK), and finally, " Can't Go Back" (issued on 7" and 12" in the UK).

The Stevie Nicks composition " Gypsy" (#12 Pop, #4 Rock, and a #16 hit in Canada) was the second single from the album and was accompanied by a lengthy video, the highest-budget music video ever produced at the time, directed by Russell Mulcahy, and was the very first "World Premiere Video" on MTV in 1982. The edited version of "Gypsy" that appears on the album and single releases runs for only 4:24, but a 5½-minute version had been originally recorded The latter version was (initially) used in the video, and was not available on CD until the release of 1992's retrospective box set 25 Years – The Chain.

Of the other two compositions from Nicks on the album, "That's Alright" dated back to the Buckingham/Nicks days of 1974, whilst "Straight Back" was written in the winter of 1981 and referred to her separation from (then) lover, producer Jimmy Iovine, and the huge wrench she experienced having to leave her newly established and highly successful solo career to re-join Fleetwood Mac for the 1982 project (Nicks refers to this on the DVD commentary to her 2008 retrospective Crystal Visions – The Very Best of Stevie Nicks). "Straight Back" was also a US rock radio hit in late 1982.

The album returned the group to the top of the US Billboard charts for the first time since their 1977 album Rumours, spending five weeks at #1. It spent a total of 18 weeks in the US Top Ten and was certified double platinum for shipping 2,000,000 copies there. It also reached #5 in the UK where it was certified platinum for shipping 300,000 copies, and #2 in Australia.

A deluxe edition of Mirage will be released this summer. This expanded reissue will feature a remaster of the original album, 13 lives tracks, B-sides, outtakes, plus other songs that didn't make the final cut. Some of these songs include "Goodbye Angel" and Teen Beat", which were both released on 25 Years: The Chain, and "Smile at You", later released on Say You Will.

Mirage is the second studio album by the English progressive rock band Camel, released on March 1, 1974. It features some of their best-known songs, including "White Rider" and "Lady Fantasy". It is also a showcase for Andrew Latimer's flute, notably on "Supertwister".

There are five tracks on Mirage, two over 9 minutes. Those two are multi-part songs: "Lady Fantasy" and "Nimrodel/The Procession/The White Rider", the latter being about The Lord of the Rings. The album was released on Gama Records/ Deram Records.

The album was voted no. 51 in the Top 100 Prog albums of All Time by readers of 'Prog' magazine in 2014.

Mirage is the seventh album by Romanian hard rock group Iris.

Mirage were a progressive rock offshoot from Camel in the 1990s.

The band was formed by drummer Andy Ward and keyboardist Peter Bardens, both former members of Camel, having last been together in the band in 1977. Also in the original line-up were guitarist Steve Adams (who had been working previously with Bardens) and bassist Rick Biddulph (who had been in Caravan of Dreams with Ward). Richard Sinclair, former Camel and Caravan member was originally asked to join on bass, but declined.

Camel had historical links with the band Caravan, notably in that Richard Sinclair and his cousin Dave Sinclair had both been in Caravan and then later Camel. The decision was taken to expand Mirage into a Camel/Caravan supergroup with the addition of Dave Sinclair and Jimmy Hastings (Brother of Pye Hastings and another former Caravan member, he had also guested on Camel's album Mirage). A tour was planned with Caravan lead vocalist Pye Hastings to join the band for old Caravan numbers only. Rehearsals started in November 1994 and touring continued to the end of the year, but Dave Sinclair, Jimmy Hastings and Pye Hastings then left. A live double album, Mirage Live 14.12.94, was released in 1995 (mainly including old Camel and Caravan numbers and several post-Camel pieces by Bardens), but plans for a studio album never materialised and the remaining quartet dissolved.

Bardens and Adams re-launched the band in the U.S. in 1995 as 'Pete Bardens' Mirage'. With Desha Dunnahoe (bass, keyboards, flute, vocals) and Nick D'Virgilio (drums), the band recorded a piece for a Genesis tribute album, Supper's Ready (Magna Carta Records). The band toured in late 1995 and early 1996, but with a new drummer, Dave Cohen (who had previously worked with Richard Sinclair). The band's set mixed Camel numbers and material from Bardens' solo career. Another live double album, Speed of Light - Live, was released in 1997, but again plans for a studio album never materialised and the band broke up that year. Biddulph, Dunnahoe and Cohen briefly continued under the name Hush.

Mirage (, Mirazh) were a 1980s Russian pop group founded in Moscow in 1986 by Russian composer-keyboard player Andrey Litjagin. The original lineup of Mirage included Litjagin, guitarist Sergey Proklov, lyricist Valery Sokolov, vocalist Natalia Gulkina and classically trained vocalist Margarita Suhankina. Their music came at a time when perestroika was radically changing the Soviet Union and their energetic disco sound captured the mood and feeling of their generation. Mirage borrowed their musical style from other disco groups of the time such as Modern Talking and Bad Boys Blue.

Gulkina and Suhankina shared vocals on the debut album The Stars Await Us. The group toured without Suhankina, who was attempting a career as a professional opera singer, and using her pre-recorded vocals on the tour.

The success of the first album increased the demand for live appearances of the band. Litjagin decided to create several "doubles" of Mirage to make simultaneously different tours of Russian cities performing to the studio session vocal recording done by Gulkina and Suhankina. Among the new performers on stage were guitarist Igor Ponomarev, keyboardist Roman Zhukov, drummer Sergei Solopov, dancer Svetlana Razina (also the girlfriend of Litjagin), and "vocalists" Tatiana Ovsiyenko and Irina Saltykova.

Financial and creative disagreements led to Gulkina quitting the group in 1988. After the separation, Gulkina thought she entitled to perform under the name Mirage as she provided most of the vocals. Litjagin and Sokolov prevailed in the Mirage name use issue; Gulkina formed a new group called Stars. The second album Together Again was released in 1988 with only Suhankina featured on lead vocals. The album had greater success than the first. The talent of guitarist, Alexey Gorbashov, helped the band project a more professional sound. The combination of Mirage's trademark Euro disco sound with the guitar rock style of Gorbashov produced in Soviet Russia a relative new style of music. The best known songs of the group were part of the album including Music has connected us and Together again The album tour featured the band performing to studio record vocals and the media made note of the fact.

In 1991, Ekaterina Boldysheva joined the group. She was the first vocalist to perform live with the group having previous professional experience. Mirage song remixes were made of the group's then two albums that included Boldysheva's vocals and issued in 1994. She sang on what was to be the group's third studio album, Not for the first time, which was completed in 2004 but released in 2008 in view of the difficult economic climate of the time.

Litjagin revived Mirage in 2003 with three new females that performed to remixed versions of already released Mirage songs. The new project enjoyed limited success despite the release of several new remix albums.

In 2005, at an event at the "Olympic" arena in Moscow, all the ex-members of Mirage participated. Gulkina and Suhankina had never meet, and together performed live. They later intended to perform as Mirage but Litjagin took legal action to prevent the name use as he believed it would harm his version of Mirage that featured younger vocalists. Relations did improved that the three would collaborate in a poorly received fourth album, A Thousand Stars, released in 2009.

Litjagin later renamed the younger version of the group as Mirage Junior. In 2011 Litjagin ended his working relationship with Gulkina and she was briefly replaced by former Mirage vocalist Svetlana Razina.

In 2013, a fifth Mirage album, Let Me Go!, was released featuring Suhankina on vocals.

In 2007, the members of Mirage, Andrey Litjagin, Boldysheva, Gorbashov were awarded medals and diplomas «Professional of Russia» for theie contribution to the culture and art of Russia.

Many of the former members of Mirage have gone on to have successful solo careers in Russia. Suhankina now performs as a classical singer.

The Mirage chocolate bar is a milk chocolate bar filled with bubbles of air, made by Nestlé and primarily sold in Canada. It is a long chocolate bar with a trapezoidal shape, filled with bubbles. It is often found in a yellow-white wrapper. The chocolate bar is made by Nestlé Canada. It is manufactured in a peanut-free facility. The Mirage is in many ways similar to the Aero bar, also made by Nestlé. However, the Mirage is quite a bit thicker than the Aero bar, and is not segmented or divided into pieces.

Mirage is the name of two Marvel Comics villains.

Mirage is a 1965 thriller directed by Edward Dmytryk from a screenplay by Peter Stone, based on the novel Fallen Angel, written by Howard Fast under the pseudonym Walter Ericson; the novel is not credited by title onscreen. The film stars Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau, and Kevin McCarthy, and was released by Universal Pictures.

Mirage (also released as Midnight Session and Reflections on Buhaina) is a 1957 release by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers for Savoy records.

Mirage, in comic, may refer to:

• Danielle Moonstar, an X-Men superheroine who sometimes uses the codename Mirage
• Mirage (DC Comics), the Batman minor supervillain Mike and the Teen Titan superheroine Miriam Delgado
• Mirage (Marvel Comics), the Spider-Man supervillain Desmond Charne
• Mirage Studios

Mirage is a 1972 Peruvian drama film directed by Armando Robles Godoy. Robles Godoy wrote the screenplay together with Bernardo Batievsky. It is the only Peruvian film to date to be nominated for a Golden Globe Award.

"Mirage" is a song by the American rock and roll group Tommy James and the Shondells, released as a single in 1967 on the Roulette Records label.

Mirage is a 1996 Urdu ghazal album by the Indian singer Jagjit Singh, released by Saregama- HMV.

The Mirage Lightweight Racing Car was a brand of race cars built by J.W. Automotive Engineereing (JWAE) at Slough in England, initially to compete in international sports car races in the colours of the Gulf Oil Corporation.

For the 1967 season, JWAE built and raced the M1, a Sports prototype based on the Ford GT40. The M1 used the standard Ford GT40 V8 engine in various capacities up to 5.7 litres. The highlight of the M1's short racing career was without doubt the victory by Jacky Ickx and Dick Thompson in chassis M.1003 in the 1967 Spa-Francorchamps 1000 km. The sole surviving Mirage M1 is on public display at the Blackhawk Museum in Danville, California (still on display late April 2015).

The M2 was built in 1968 for the new 3 Litre Group 6 Prototype class, but the BRM V12 powered cars were rarely raced and met with no success. The revised and roofless M3 of 1969 was powered by the Ford Cosworth DFV V8 but again this model saw little use, JWA having largely concentrated on racing Ford GT40s during these two years.

The M4 was a roadster conceived between the end of 1969 and the begenning of 1970 coupling M3 chassis with a 5-liter Ford GT40 engine, but development of thi particular car was stopped once JWAE signed the agreement with Porsche to use their 917 for the 1970 season, while in 1969 M5, a Formula Ford single seater, was built, and raced during 1970 British F.Ford season under Willment Group banner. Many fans got confused about M4-M5 denomination due to John Horsmann calling M5 the roadster and M4 the single seater.

After competing with Porsche 917s during the 1970 & 1971 seasons, JWAE developed the new Ford Cosworth powered M6 model to race as a Group 5 Sports Car in the new World Championship for Makes from 1972.

At the end of 1971 season big "5 liter sportcars" like Porsche 917 and Ferrari 512 were banned, leaving the scene to nimbler "3 liter prototypes" and JWAE was ready with a new project from Len Bailey: the M6. The M6 consisted of a steel reinforced riveted aluminium chassis coupled with a detuned 3 liter Cosworth DFV Formula 1 engine as a stressed member, and covered by open fiberglass bodywork with a large rear wing: the first chassis was completed in March 1972 and raced at 12 Hours of Sebring, the second car was completed halfway into the season, and the third was used to test Weslake V12 engine. While heavier, the Weslake V12 was expected to be smoother and more powerful than the Cosworth, whose strong vibrations caused many reliability issues. Again the only victory was at Spa, in the 1973 Spa-Francorchamps 1000 km. Apart from this win, the 1973 season was less than successful. Most of the teams resources were dedicated to Weslake V12 engine development, which did not prove better than the Cosworth, and led to the end of the program with four chassis out of five rebuilt as GR7.

M6 Coupé was the closed version with low-drag bodywork and powered by the 2995 cc Ford- Weslake V12 engine planned to be used at 1973 24 Hours of Le Mans: poor performances (laptimes were 16 seconds slower than M6-Cosworth) ended the project.

The GR7 model was renamed to Gulf GR7 for 1974, reflecting the sponsorship involvement of Gulf Oil which dated from 1967. "Gulf Ford" placed second in the 1974 World Championship for Makes.

In 1975 the team obtained its last victory in the 24 Hours of Le Mans with the GR8 driven by Jacky Ickx and Derek Bell. The other car finished third with Vern Schuppan and Jean-Pierre Jaussaud. The race was excluded from the World Championship for Makes by the CSI because of new fuel consumption rules introduced for the race in the wake of the oil crisis.

Upon Gulf Oil’s sponsorship withdrawal from international sports car racing in late 1975, American entrepreneur and former racing driver Harley Cluxton III purchased the Mirage team and all associated manufacturing rights from John Wyer and the Gulf Research Racing Company. As a Group 6 Prototype entrant, Cluxton continued successfully contesting the Mirages at Le Mans as a two car team. With primary sponsorship from JCB Excavators, Elf Lubricants, and Renault Sport, and under the continued management of John Horsman and counsel of John Wyer, the Mirage M8 finished second overall in both 1976 and 1977, behind Porsche’s factory Martini 936s.

The M9 of 1978 featured a new open long-tail body and was powered by a turbocharged 2.1 liter 6 cylinder Renault engine. Two examples started in the 1978 24 Hours of Le Mans with one gaining tenth place.

The M10 of 1979 used an updated M8 chassis with revised open long-tail body and a 3-liter Ford Cosworth DFV engine. Two M10s were entered in the 1979 24 Hours of Le Mans by Grand Touring Cars Inc / Ford Concessionaires France, officially as Ford M10s. Neither car finished.

The last Mirage to be constructed was the M12, a Group C prototype featuring an aluminum honeycomb monocoque and Cosworth 3.9 liter DFL engine. Entered at the 1982 24 Hours of Le Mans with Mario Andretti and son Michael Andretti co-driving for the first time, the car was ultimately disqualified 20 minutes prior to the start of the race for a technical infraction relating to the placement of an oil cooler. Much controversy surrounded the ACO's decision, with many citing organizational politics as the cause. Though the M12 showed great potential as both a Group C and IMSA GTP competitor, the program was aborted after Le Mans.

In all, from 1974 to 1978, the Mirages never finished outside of the top-ten positions at Le Mans, posting a first, two seconds, a third, a fourth, a fifth, and a tenth. Mirage race cars were the first to wear the legendary powder blue and marigold livery of Gulf Oil, the first to post race wins for Gulf Oil, and the last to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans overall for Gulf Oil. As well Mirage is one of only two independently constructed racing car marques to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans overall since the post-World War II return of the Grand Prix d’Endurance in 1949.

Mirage (; transliterated Iluzija) is a 2004 Macedonian drama film starring Vlado Jovanovski, Mustafa Nadarević, Nikola Đuričko, and Dejan Aćimović, with Marko Kovačević debuting in its lead role. It was directed by Svetozar Ristovski, who co-wrote the film with Grace Lea Troje. Taking place in the city of Veles, the film is a coming-of-age story about a talented but abused schoolboy who is betrayed by illusory hopes of a better future and transformed by harsh circumstances into a criminal. It offers a grim depiction of post-independence Macedonia, portraying it as a site of violence and corruption.

Mirage was Ristovski's feature debut as a director. Following its release in Canada and the United States, it was well-received by most critics, who have generally praised the film for its uncompromising realism and lead actor's performance. It won Best Feature Film during the 2005 Anchorage International Film Festival and was nominated for the Tokyo Grand Prix during the 2004 Tokyo International Film Festival.

Mirage was recorded as an album by Eric Burdon and The Eric Burdon Band in 1973 during the "Mirage Project". It was not released until 27 February 2008 by Universal.

Four "Mirage" sessions were released as a bootleg.

On 27 February 2008 Universal and Polydor released 9 Eric Burdon albums, some re-issues, some unreleased tracks.

Mirage was scheduled to release by Atlantic on June 1974. It never did. In 2006 AIM released a compilation Wild & Wicked which features some tracks of the Mirage project and the later "Comeback project".

The album was also about Vietnam War.

The United Artists film Mirage was never made.

Mirage is the fourth studio album by Dutch music producer and DJ Armin van Buuren. It was released on 10 September 2010 by Armada Music, and was preceded by the release of the lead single, "Full Focus" on 24 June 2010. The album features collaborations with English singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor, British singer Christian Burns, Pakistani-American singer Nadia Ali, American music producer BT, Dutch music producer Ferry Corsten, and Adam Young of Owl City.

The album debuted at number 3 in the Netherlands, and at number 113 in the United Kingdom. It debuted at number 148 in the United States on the Billboard 200, while also charting at the Dance/Electronic Albums chart at number 5.

MIRAGE is the second studio album from the I've Sound singer, Mell, released on October 27, 2010. The album contains eight new songs, one old song from an album released on Comic Market away back 2002, and a remix of her famous song Red Fraction which was used as an opening theme for the OVA of the anime series Black Lagoon. Infection was used as an insert song for the seventh episode of the anime series Highschool of the Dead.

This album will contain her three singles Proof/No Vain, Kill and Rideback.

The album will come in a limited CD+DVD edition (GNCV-1023) and a regular CD-only edition (GNCV-1024). The DVD will contain the PV for the title track "Mirage" and the making for her activity report for the year 2010.

"Mirage" is a song performed by French singer M. Pokora. It was written by Pokora and co-written and produced by Gee Futuristic. It serves as the second single from Pokora's fourth studio album Mise à Jour. It was released on November 22, 2010.

You Make Me Smile is an album by American flugelhornist Art Farmer's Quintet featuring performances recorded in 1982 and released on the Soul Note label.

Mirage is an international fashion and culture magazine headquartered in Paris, France.

Mirage is a 2014 Hungarian-Slovak drama film directed by Szabolcs Hajdu. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.

Mirage is a 1995 action- thriller film directed by Paul Williams and starred by Edward James Olmos and Sean Young.

Mirage is the first EP by the Danish band Scarlet Pleasure. It will be released on September 22, 2014. It consist of 7 tracks recorded over 10 months, among other their debut single " Windy".

Mirage was a heavy metal band which was formed in 1983 from the ashes of two Welsh Rock/ Metal bands: 'Rough Justice' and 'Exit'. The band were based in the valleys of South East Wales, UK. Its members were Richard Morgan (aka "Wretch) on vocals, Richard Price on guitar, Carl Skinner on bass and Gerry Turner on drums. In 1984, they released one track 'Blind Fury' on a compilation album produced by local record company 'Notepad Productions'. This came to the attention of Malc Macmillan, author of the Encyclopaedia of New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWoBHM) who described their track 'Blind Fury' as "truly one of the classic tracks of the entire NWoBHM genre" The rare Notepad Productions VOLUME I album remains highly sought after by collectors - featured in Record Collector Magazine in January 2015. The band has enjoyed some recent attention from High Roller Records who have re-released the band's tracks Blind Fury/ Twilight Zone on black and white vinyl. The cover features Richard Price's original 1979 Fender Stratocaster guitar alongside a Turner family artefact from WWII.

Mirage NWoBHM Band 1984.jpg|Band Members: Gerry Turner, Richard Morgan, Carl Skinner, Richard Price

Mirage is the third studio album by German electronic music duo Digitalism, released on 13 May 2016 by Magnetism Recording Co. through PIAS. Jens Moelle and İsmail Tüfekçi produced all songs on the album, with Moelle providing all vocals aside from Anthony Rossomando of the band Dirty Pretty Things on "Battlecry" and the band's former tour bus driver Anthony Wilson providing a freestyle rap on the hip hop track "The Ism".

Along with the announcement of the album, the band released the tracks and first two singles, "Battlecry" and "Utopia". The band toured Europe, North America and Australia in May and June 2016 in support of the album.