image

noun images

1. A visual or other representation of the external form of something in art. The Bible forbids the worship of graven images.
2. A file on a computer containing a single frame; an image file.
3. 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 young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching

   Similar: idea

4. A statue or idol.
5. 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.
6. A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is or wishes to be perceived by others.
7. 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.
8. 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.

   Similar: range

9. A form of interference: a weaker "copy" of a strong signal that occurs at a different frequency.
10. obsolete Show; appearance; cast. The face of things a frightful image bears.
11. The collection of focus points of light rays coming from a given object.

Similar: picture, value

verb images · imaging · imaged

1. transitive 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 two such mighty Powers as Jupiter and Neptune, whereby the Elements had been mix’
2. transitive 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,
3. transitive 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, resolving incoming images in minute detail.
4. transitive To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.