image

A visual or other representation of the external form of something in art.

Noun

  1. A visual or other representation of the external form of something in art.
    • The Bible forbids the worship of graven images.
    • The Citizens in their rage, imagining that euery poſt in the Churche had bin one of yᵉ Souldyers, ſhot habbe or nabbe at randon^([sic – meaning random]) uppe to the Roode lofte, and to the Chancell, leauing ſome of...
    • Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical...

    1. A file on a computer containing a single frame; an image file.

  2. A mental picture of something not real or not present.
    • Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright...
  3. A statue or idol.
  4. A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image and image copy.)
    • Most game console emulators do not come with any ROM images for copyright reasons.
  5. A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is or wishes to be perceived by others.
  6. The value a function maps some argument to.
    • The number 6 is the image of 3 under f that is defined as f(x) = 2x.
  7. The subset of the codomain of a function comprising those elements that are the image of some element of its domain.
    • The image of this step function is the set of integers.
  8. A form of interference: a weaker "copy" of a strong signal that occurs at a different frequency.
  9. Show; appearance; cast.
    • The face of things a frightful image bears. - 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson,...
  10. The collection of focus points of light rays coming from a given object.

    Hyponyms: real image virtual image

Origin

From Middle English ymage, borrowed from Old French image, from Latin imāgō (“a copy, likeness, image”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eym-; the same PIE root is the source of imitari (“to copy, imitate”); see imitate. Doublet of imago.

Forms

images

Synonyms

picture idea value range

Hyponyms

digital image disc image hybrid image inverse image macroimage mental image microimage mirror image real image spitting image still image virtual image

Related

imaginable imaginary imagination imaginative imagine

Derived

afterimage after image journal an image is worth a thousand words before image journal bioimage body image brand image coimage controlling image counterimage eigenimage enemy image five-image fluoroimage four-image ghost image global image golden image graven image hero image holoimage imageability imageable imageboard

Verb

  1. To represent by an image or symbol; to portray.
    • 1718, Alexander Pope, The Iliad of Homer, London: Bernard Lintot, Volume IV, Observations on the Fifteenth Book, Note 14 on verse 252, p. 215, This Representation of the Terrors which must have attended the Conflict of...
    • […] his behaviour was, as I had imaged to myself, solemnly devout. - 1791, James Boswell, “(please specify the year)”, in James Boswell, editor, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. […], volume I, London: […] Henry...
    • […] he repeated, with such tremulous feeling, the various lines which imaged a broken heart, or a mind destroyed by wretchedness, and looked so entirely as if he meant to be understood, that she ventured to hope he did...
  2. To reflect, mirror.
    • See’st thou yon river, whose translucent wave, Forth issuing from the darkness, windeth through The argent streets o’ th’ City, imaging The soft inversion of her tremulous Domes, - 1829, Alfred, Lord Tennyson,...
    • Sorrow was dead indeed in her, but peace and perfect happiness were born; imaged in her tranquil beauty and profound repose. - 1840 April – 1841 November, Charles Dickens, “Chapter the Seventy-first”, in The Old...
    • […]we look into a pair of eyes deep as our own, imaging our own, but all unconscious of us; to whom we, for the time, are become as spirits and invisible! - 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “2, “St. Edmundsbury,””, in Past...
  3. To create an image of.
    • The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution,...
    • He added, in an email to CNN, that “the collection of increasingly large and well curated medical datasets has enabled AI tools to predict genetic mutations from imaging phenotypes reducing the burden of healthcare...
  4. To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.

Forms

images imaging imaged

Derived

unimaged