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Yes except when it diffracts, refracts, reflects or come under strong gravity force.

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What is the part of speech for the word diameter?

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The proper word is reflected. Light is an electromagnetic wave and so the conductive surface of the mirror experiences an oscillating electric field. That changing field causes the electrons on the surface to oscillate back and forth. The oscillating electrons then themselves create an oscillating electromagnetic wave and we perceive that as light reflecting off the surface. Other types of surfaces also reflect light, such as water and glass. It happens that the slower light travels in a medium the greater the amount of light that is reflected. For example light travels slower in glass than in water and so glass reflects more light then water. It turns out that light travels the slowest in metals and that is one of the reasons it is used in mirrors. It reflects almost all of the light that hits it.