No, a reflection is a flipped graph of the same object/function over a specified axis. A translation just moves it to a different coordinate, without flipping it.
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The 3 transformations of math are: translation, reflection and rotation. These are the well known ones. There is a fourth, dilation, in which the pre image is the same shape as the image, but the same size in the world
a reflection is the image of the object in a mirror
translation, reflection, dilation
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On the Cartesian plane a relfection in a line produces a mirror image On the Cartesian plane a translation moves every point on a shape the same distance and in the same direction