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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Synonyms 1.3.2 Derived terms 1.3.3 Related terms 1.3.4 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Quotations 1.5 External links 2 French 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Pronunciation 2.3 Noun 2.3.1 Synonyms 2.3.2 Related terms

[edit] English

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[edit] Etymology

< Middle English < Old French < Latin imāgō (“‘a copy, likeness, image’”) < *im, root of imitari (“‘to copy, imitate’”); see imitate.

[edit] Pronunciation

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[edit] Noun

image (plural images)

1. An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture.
2. A mental picture of something not real or not present.
3. (computing) A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (see disk image, executable image and image copy)
4. A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is, or wishes to be, perceived by others.
5. (mathematics) Something mapped to by a function.

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

6. (mathematics) The subset of a codomain comprising those elements that are images of something.

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

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• (representation): picture
• (mental picture): idea
• (something mapped to): value
• (subset of the codomain): range

[edit] Derived terms

imagery mental image mirror image preimage

real image reimage spitting image virtual image

[edit] Related terms

• imaginary
• imaginable
• imagination
• imaginative
• imagine

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[edit] Verb

to image (third-person singular simple present images, present participle imaging, simple past and past participle imaged)

1. to represent symbolically
2. To reflect, mirror
3. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (computing) To convert an idea to an image.
4. (computing) To create a complete backup copy of a filesystem.

[edit] Quotations

• 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 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 2, St. Edmundsbury

[edit] External links

• image in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• image in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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[edit] French

[edit] Etymology

From Latin imago (“‘a copy, likeness, image’”)

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /i.maʒ/, SAMPA: /i.maZ/

   Audio (France)^{help, file}

• Homophones: images, imagent

[edit] Noun

image f. (plural images)

1. picture, image
2. (TV, cinematography) frame

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• métaphore
• reflet
• symbole
• vision

[edit] Related terms

• imagé
• imagerie
• imagier
• imaginer