Image

/ˈɪm.ɪdʒ/ · noun

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. A visual or other representation of the external form of something in art.
2. A mental picture of something not real or not present.
3. A statue or idol.
4. (computing) A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image and image copy.)
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. (mathematics) The value a function maps some argument to.
7. (mathematics) The subset of the codomain of a function comprising those elements that are the image of some element of its domain.
8. (radio) A form of interference: a weaker "copy" of a strong signal that occurs at a different frequency.

Example Sentences

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 theyr arrowes ſticking in the Images.

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 charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.

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 on free food.

Most game console emulators do not come with any ROM images for copyright reasons.

The number 6 is the image of 3 under f that is defined as f(x) = 2x.

The image of this step function is the set of integers.

The face of things a frightful image bears.

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• images
• imaging
• imaged

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